Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : Best in Show [The serious world of primping, parading and miracle hair gel]
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; LETTERS; VIEWFINDER [Dunedin / Wellington / Northland]; PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2012; GeoNEWS [First flights, untouchable plants, desperate measures]; ARTEFACT [Maori kite]; TE ARAROA [Wellington route]; WEATHER [Rising tides]; PROFILE [Paul Moon]; LIFE [Cryptozoology]; BOOKS [Tangata o le Moana, The Owl that Fell from the Sky]; HISTORY [Changing money]; IN THE FIELD [Peter Malcouronne]; PARTING SHOT [Year of the Penguin];
CONTENTS - Features :
BEST IN SHOW [New Zealand is a nation of dog-lovers, and every weekend they congregate to primp, prime and parade their pooches]
THE BLACK AND THE GREEN [Denniston Plateau has become a stage for a political showdown over land use, coal versus habitat, the black and the green]
VOICE OF THE CITY [Literally voix de ville, vaudeville has emerged from nearly a century of obscurity to grace the stage in Auckland again]
KEEPING THE BEES [While bee populations crash under the inscrutable threat of colony collapse, Chatham Island may provide answers]