400 AND COUNTING
WELCOME to our 400th issue, 33 years from lift-off. For a monthly magazine in our young country, those numbers nudge North & South into the “legacy” category, alongside sister publication Metro, which launched in 1981 (both magazines are striplings, however, compared to their Bauer Media stablemate, the NZ Listener, which is celebrating its 80th this year).
was the creation of the start-up team, who saw potential in a provincial version of their hit the newsstand in April 1986 with Kiwi mountaineers Mark Inglis and Phil Doole on the cover. It’s never missed a monthly print deadline since; occasional delays getting to your mailbox or local store over the years have more likely been due to Cook Strait ferry strikes or – reflecting the realities of provincial life – bridge washouts and road-closing snow storms.
