Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : Who are TuHoe?
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; VIEWFINDER [Surfing, fishing, sailing]; ARTEFACT [Paper dolls]; GeoNEWS [Seal teeth, flexible flax, disappearing coffee]; TE ARAROA [Te Hikoi o Te Kiri]; WEATHER [Hurricane Sandy]; PROFILE [Dick Frizzell]; LIFE [Plant Feelings]; BOOKS [New Zealand’s London, Kiwi : The Real Story]; HISTORY [Cable connection]; IN THE FIELD [Peter James Quinn]; PARTING SHOT [32% pure];
CONTENTS - Features :
SONGLINES [The population of humpback whales in the South Pacific that was hardest hit by Soviet whaling remains endangered, numbering fewer than 4000 individuals]
WHO ARE TUHOE? [On the eve of its settlement with the Crown, the iwi considers its future, one where it has control of its affairs and land for the first time in more than a century]
SITTING DUCKS [Unable to defend themselves from mammalian predators, pateke were in perilous decline until a concerted captive breeding programme changed their fortunes]
FIRE & WATER [Scientists are only beginning to understand the diversity of marine life that takes advantage of the unstable and volcanic environment on the Kermadec Arc]