Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : 26,000 Kiwis use P. 400 homes are contaminated. Drug-related crime is on the rise. What can control its spread?
CONTENTS - Departments : EDITORIAL / LETTERS / VIEWFINDER [Bluff oystering] / GEONEWS [What3Words, frogs, SEM imagery] / GREAT WALKS [Abel Tasman Coast track] / ARTEFACT [Call of the huia] / WEATHER [Fiji cyclones] / PROFILE [Mike and Sharon Barton] / LIFE [Neanderthal genes] / VIEWPOINT [A walk down memory lane] / BOOKS [Antarctica, NZ Baking] / HISTORY [The first rugby game] / IN THE FIELD [Cam McLaren] / ON REFLECTION [A Gulf in my thinking].
CONTENTS - Features :
OUR PROBLEM WITH P [Fifteen years after meth use exploded in New Zealand, the drug remains a serious problem in many communities. Now a second generation of meth dealers and users is coming of age]
THE GREAT EASTER BUNNY HUNT [It’s a fiercely fought contest, a 24-hour endurance event, a significant pest-control operation - and a family sporting occasion. The 25th birthday of the Great Easter Bunny Hunt is one more assault in the war against the rabbits of Central Otago]
THE UNFORGIVING FACE [A chance discovery at the base of New Zealand’s most treacherous mountaineering ascent raised the prospect of a decades-old mystery finally being resolved]
IN THE WAKE OF ROSS [One hundred and seventy-five years ago this year, British explorer James Clark Ross led an expedition into the unknown at the bottome of the world. Today, the Ross Sea remains pristine, unknown, unprotected]