North & South

IF THE WALLS COULD ROAR

DESPITE HIS enthusiasm, which borders on obsession, John Ward knows visitors to his Manutahi Museum can be shocked by what they see.

As their eyes adjust to the subdued lighting, they realise they’re surrounded – walls, floor, ceiling – by thousands of dead creatures, from a polar bear to a

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