The great spraying machine

It was a great invention. Everybody said so. Even the cowboy described it as neat....

Salute

“It’s been a hectic week,” sighed George Gibbs when I met him in his lair...

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Flood waters roared through the business district of Kaikoura on the evening of Thursday December...

The running bull

On summer nights the sky is dominated by the bright constellation of Orion, the Hunter....

Celestial trails

Everyday phenomena can take on extraordinary dimensions, depending on how you see them. The “sun...

The demon grasshoppers

What insects have the tusks of an elephant, can weigh as much as a thrush...

Faith and brotherhood

Tested to the limit by poverty and tribulation, the Bohemians who settled in Puhoi last...

Pukeko-the indomitable swamphen

Popularly regarded as brainless kamikazes lacking all road sense, pukeko are confounding scientists with their...

The girls can’t get out!

Terror overwhelmed the people of Christchurch as the city’s classiest department store erupted in a...

Dances with horses

Kiwi cowboys have been riding, roping and wrestling on the rodeo circuit for night on...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

Black-Backed Gulls
Meth & HIV in Fiji
Dung beetles
Centro
Rogaining

Issue 198 Mar - Apr 2026

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