I have accepted the job of Editor of the New Zealand Mathematical Society Newsletter. This publication has been going since 1974, and has fallen on hard times lately. It is time for a shakeup, but this will start slowly.

Some of the old issues make very interesting reading. The very first one shows that although times have certainly changed, many features of the NZ mathematical scene remain the same. At least now we don’t have to produce the newsletter with a typewriter and cyclostyle machine!