70th Anniversary Issue: After Braving the Waves and Troughs of Seven Decades, Where Is Our Small Craft Now?(Editorial‪)‬

Volume 1, Number 1 was published in September 1938 (Figures 1, 2 & 3). What remarkable reading those early issues make, and how fascinating it is to leaf through the volumes that make up the seventy intervening years. Seventy years of proud history; seventy years of professional progress. In this issue Dr David Nicholls, a physiotherapist with a strong interest in the history of our profession, begins a series of articles surveying the seventy-year history of the New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy (Nicholls 2009). In the following Guest Editorial, Dr Nicholls walks us briskly along the path of the past seventy years. This series will continue, with one article per year focussing on an epoch in the Journal's history, until 2013, in which year the 75th anniversary of the Journal coincides with the 100th anniversary of the physiotherapy profession in New Zealand. It promises to be enchanting reading, and we owe a debt of thanks to Dr Nicholls for his commitment to keeping the history of our profession fresh and alive.