North & South

NIGHT AND DAY

DAY OF DISCOVERY Mike White headed to Queenstown as a case study for his cover story Too Many Tourists? (page 30). If Auckland has a visitor-overload equivalent, it’s Waiheke Island – especially since rated it fifth-best destination in the world in 2016 and then voted it the world’s fourth-best island. You could almost hear the collective groan from Waiheke’s 9000-plus permanent residents bouncing around the Hauraki Gulf: “Leave us alone, !”

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