Our About the South columnist on a canine colony off Rakiura/Stewart Island, an intrepid Inspector of Telegraphs and a proposal of unbearable stupidity.
From wind strong enough to toss two train carriages, to seven-storey waves ripping buoys out of the Southern Ocean, New Zealand's weather is wildly changeable. And it's only going to get wilder.
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