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Discusses the economic benefits of hosting the America's Cup races for Auckland, New Zealand. Need for general agreement in the organization of the races; Study conducted for the races; Projections of direct spending; Village concept for competitors; Plans for 1999-2000.

Focuses on cases of institutional abuse. Crusade of children's rights campaigner Robert Ludbrook to help maltreated children at the Lake Alice mental hospital in New Zealand; Account of the case of a 13-year-old non-English-speaking Niuean boy sent to Wanganui by Social Welfare from his Auckland home; Government's responsibility to help institutional-abused children; Information on other people who put efforts to help maltreated children.

Deals with the fatal flaw of white-spotted tussock moth caterpillar. Several North American gypsy moth programs launched by the Ministry of Forestry (Mof); Criticisms regarding the programs; Problems on how government processes worked; How the moths were controlled. INSET: Chronology of the tussock moth..

Focuses on issues related to the America's Cup Yacht Race for the year 2000 in New Zealand. Arguments on the selection of race's organizing committee; Conflicting ideas on the selection of location for the Cup village; Issues related to the sponsorship of the event.

The article presents readers comment on various television and radio programs including "Maigret" changing the schedule of Radio New Zealand Concert programs, and introducing the Maori music segment.

Profiles Ian Fraser, chief executive of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO). Complaint against the NZSO; Career experience of Fraser; His plans for the orchestra.

Discusses the importance of plant variety rights (PVR) for plant breeders of New Zealand. How PVR came into force in New Zealand; Market for cross breed plants; Problems with PVR.

Reports on the palaeoecologist Richard Holdaway's discovery of rat bones dating 2000BP in New Zealand which has implications for the country's prehistory. Possible changes in the accepted date of Maori colonization which is 800 to 850BP; Questions on the validity of carbon dating techniques used; Study of prehistoric ecology which implies human visitations much earlier than the accepted date.

Focuses on the rivalry between New Zealand-based New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO) and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (APO). Background on the orchestras' operations; Government's funding support for the orchestras; Comparison between the orchestras.

Profiles music conductor Andrew Sewell. Three-concert tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in 1996; Orchestral experience; Professional debut in 1986; Winner of an AGC Young Achiever's Award in 1987; Participation in the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato in Mexico.

Features New Zealand politician, Donna Awatere. launching of her biography `My Journey'; Impressions on her father, Peta Awatere; Recollections about her urinating on a regional education superintendent's office.

Reports on the prospect of arts organizations in New Zealand. Plan of Stephen Morrison, Auckland Opera's general manager, in having Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa perform in Auckland, New Zealand; Attitude of most arts organizations in planning for a loss because of grant funding; Objections of Morrison to this set-up; Comparison of arts funding in New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain as Morrison's thesis.

Reports on developments in Auckland, New Zealand's political activities. Search for a leader for the proposed Auckland Party; Auckland Mayor Les Mills' spearheading the `Fair Deal' campaign; Claims over the government's penny-pinching the upgrade of Auckland Museum; Views from Auckland Chamber of Commerce chairman Michael Barnett.

Reports on criticisms against the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Contractual battle between chief executive Mark Keyworth and artistic manager Roger Lloyd; Lack of commitment to local music; Lack of artistic strategy; Mainstreaming of local music.

Features Auckland, New Zealand-based RKS Art gallery owned by Rodney Kirk Smith. Celebration of 30th year in 1995; Distinction as the oldest art dealer in New Zealand; Loss of innocence among artists and the community at large.

Discusses how Klaus Heymann and violinist wife Takako Nishizaki applied to live music ventures their principles in their recording company Naxos. Reasons Heymann and Nishizaki decided to create an international chamber music festival in Auckland, New Zealand; When the idea of backing a chamber music festival came to the couple; Problems faced by the couple.

Profiles Andrea Creighton, 1996 Mobil Song Quest winner in New Zealand. What the Mobil success provided to Creighton; Background on the singing competition; Advice to singers.

Features Lucy de Castro, project manager for the broadcast festival of 20th-century music of the BBC Radio 3. Her tasks in the project; Her views about the job; Details on the 20th-century music festival of BBC Radio 3.

Reports that Auckland's Town Hall is being promoted as `Australasia's finest acoustic music venue.' Impact of the promotion to concertgoers; Comments of the acoustic team from Marshall Day Associates on the Town Hall brief; Aims in improving the hall.

Deals with the scientists' nicotine findings in the tobacco industry of New Zealand. Reason why Michael Thompson, executive director of the Tobacco Institute, gave up smoking; Statistics involving the nicotine concentration of the packs of 10 Holiday Special Filter; Claim of Dr. Tony Blakely involving the test conducted by the Health Department of New Zealand.

Features tunesmith Jaz Coleman and Auckland conductor Peter Scholes of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Their symphonic Led Zeppelin album; How Scholes see musicians; Scholes' job as principal clarinettist of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 1993; How Coleman and Scholes met each other.

Reports on Rehabilitation Management Ltd.'s takeover of the prosthetic service supply contract of the New Zealand Artificial Limb Board with North Health. Terms of the contract; Integration of disability support services; Public criticism of Rehabilitation's takeover of the Board's contract with North Health.

Reports on anthropologist Lisa Matisoo-Smith's use of rat DNA in a study to trace Maori migration routes and plot Hawaiki, considered the mystical place of Maori origins. Theory on each individual population of Polynesian rat called kiore within the Pacific Islands; Support for some accepted archaeologically based theories; Rejection of some theories on Maori migration.

Features the launching of professional orchestra Orchestra Terra Nova in Auckland, New Zealand. Organizer of the orchestra; Invitations for tours overseas; Auditions held for applicants to the orchestra; Goal of accumulating funds for recordings; Harmonious relation with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra.