Our Cover

With the aid of Keith and Carol Ercolano and Neil Thompson and Betty Don, we transformed a quiet corner of Queen's Gardens into one of the waterways of Venice, recently. Why? Just to give you some idea of the colourful costumes and the setting for this year's Operatic Society production, "The Gondoliers" (Gilbert and Sullivan). It certainly is colourful. The season opens at the Theatre Royal on September 23 and continues to the 30th.

Our back cover features a view across the back waters of Port Motueka towards the Tasman range on a fine, still winter's day.