Contents

COVER : A moody morning on Lake Moeraki.
CONTENTS - Features :
THE 1913 WELLINGTON WHARF STRIKE [Militant watersiders seized the wharves and the government recruited thousands of special constables to break the strike. It was bitter];
THE BANABANS OF RABI [When Ocean Island / Banaba was stripped of its surface - phosphate rock - to fertilise our farms, its people were moved to Rabi Island in Fiji where they eke out a subsistence existence];
GREYHOUND RACING [Greyhound racing lacks the profile of horse racing but it’s driven by a dedicated group of owners, trainers and punters - to say nothing of the dogs themselves];
SPRING IN HAAST [Whitebait bring this sparsely populated but meteorologically flamboyant coastal strip alive each spring];
HUNTING SNIPE [The snipe - a small bird with a long beak - has made it back to Campbell Island after a 170-year exile on a desolate islet];
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; LETTERS; WEATHER [Explosive cyclogenesis]; GeoNEWS [Chathams, biofuel]; VIEWPOINT [Paradise lost]; BLAKE TRUST; ROCKS [Menhirs of Rodney]; MUSEUMS [Blood, Earth, Fire]; TREES [Lost Kauri];