27 NOVEMBER

NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

GOVERNMENT BOOKSHOPS

A selective range of Government publications is available from the following Government Bookshops:

Wellington—
Mulgrave Street Telephone 737 320
Rutherford House, Lambton Quay Telephone 726 145
World Trade Center, Cubacadе, Cuba Street Private Bag
Telephone 349 572

Auckland: Housing Corporation of New Zealand Building, Rutland Street
P.O. Box 5344
Telephone 32 919
Hamilton: Barton Street
P.O. Box 857
Telephone 80 103
Christchurch: 130 Oxford Terrace
P.O. Box 1721
Telephone 50 331
Dunedin: T. and G. Insurance Building, Princes Street
P.O. Box 1104 Telephone 78 294
Wholesale Retail Mail Order

Postage: All publications are post or freight free within New Zealand by second-class surface mail or surface freight.
Postage or freight is extra when publications are forwarded by first-class surface mail, by air mail, by air freight, or overseas.
Call, write, or phone your nearest Government Bookshop for your requirements.

NEW ZEALAND STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS

These are not now available from Government Bookshops but may be obtained from the Standards Association of New Zealand, Private Bag, Wellington.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Subscriptions: The subscription is at the rate of $30 per calendar year, including postage, payable in advance.
Single copies available as issued.
The price of each Gazette varies and is printed thereon.
The New Zealand Gazette is published on Thursday evening of each week. Notices from Government departments must be received by the Gazette Clerk, Department of Internal Affairs, by noon on Tuesdays. Advertisements will be accepted by the Government Printer until noon on Wednesdays.
Advertisements are charged at the rate of 10c per line.
The number of insertions required must be written across the face of the advertisement.
All advertisements should be written on one side of the paper, and signatures, etc., should be written in a legible hand.

STATUTORY REGULATIONS

Under the Regulations Act 1936, statutory regulations of general legislative force are no longer published in the New Zealand Gazette, but are supplied under any one or more of the following arrangements:

(1) All regulations serially as issued (punched for filing), subscription $20 per calendar year in advance.

(2) Annual Volume (including index) bound in buckram, price on application. (Volumes for years 1936–37 and 1939–42 are out of print.)

(3) Separate regulations as issued.

The price of each regulation is printed thereon.

GENERAL PUBLICATIONS

INTRODUCTION AND LIBERATION OF THE OPOSSUM INTO NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand Forest Service
By L. T. Pracy

In this summary, data, records, and other information on liberation points has been collected to analyse the pattern, spread, distribution, and the effect on the habitat. This study will enable a better understanding and control of the opossum in the future.

28 pages with fold-out map. 1974. Price $1.

JOINERY IN NEW ZEALAND

PART I, DOORS

70 pages, illustrated. Price 90c.

PART II, DOOR FRAMES, TRANSOMS, ETC.
112 pages, illustrated. Price 85c.
PART III, WINDOW JOINERY FITMENTS
136 pages, illustrated. Price $1.45.

PART IV, WOODWORKING MACHINERY
124 pages. Price $1.80.

JOURNAL OF ENSIGN BEST

EDITED BY NANCY M. TAYLOR

466 pages, illustrated. Price $3.50.

KILN SCHEDULES FOR NEW ZEALAND TIMBERS

BY J. A. KININMONTH AND D. H. WILLIAMS

New Zealand Forest Service Information Series No. 69

This 16-page booklet outlines the selection of suitable kiln schedules. The interrelationships of the variables involved in drying timber are set out, along with the requirements to be taken into consideration, such as grade, thickness, width, and end use of a particular species. Both low- and high-temperature drying are discussed and also special kiln treatments such as preliminary steaming, intermediate high-humidity treatment, equalising, and final conditioning.

The kiln schedules are presented in tabular form giving wet and dry bulb temperatures and final conditioning times for various species and moisture contents. Comments are attached to these schedules regarding characteristic features of the kilning of the species and the expected range of drying times.

16 pages. 1974.

Price 50c.

MACHINE STRESS GRADING

(An alternative to visual grading of timber for strength)
BY I. D. WHITESIDE

This book outlines the need for commercial machine stress grading in New Zealand.

Stress grading studies carried out by the writer in 1967 on radiata pine from Kaingaroa Forest showed that machine stress grading gave better grade recoveries over visual grading hence raised the value of a considerable proportion of the sawn output in framing sizes.

The writer firmly believes that the introduction of machine grading will help overcome the present lack of stress grades in New Zealand. This lack of availability is thought to have been a major cause of timber not being much more widely used as a structural material in competition with concrete and steel.

An informative book for builders, building inspectors, and specifiers to prepare them for the introduction of machine stress graded timber.

New Zealand Forest Service Information Series No. 66, 1974.

36 pages.

Price $1.50

THE MAN FOR THE JOB

STATE SERVICES COMMISSION

8 pages.

Price 30c.

MANUAL ON TRANSFUSION PROCEDURES

17 pages.

Price 30c.

THE MAORI AS HE WAS

BY ELSDON BEST

Fifty years of public demand since this book was first published resulted in the need for reprints in 1934 and 1952.

The text has been reproduced unchanged but the originals of some of the figures could not be traced and these have been replaced with similar illustrations.

There have been many advances in our knowledge of Maori life since this book first appeared. The work of numerous ethnologists, and more recently archaeologists, has critically examined many of the earlier concepts, confirming some, disproving others, and altering others to varying degrees. No one has yet produced a synthesis of the results of all this scholarship and there is still nothing as comprehensive as this book of Best's to give a general account of the Maori.

This book was first published when Best was 68 and thus represents the accumulated knowledge of a lifetime. It has now become a classic introduction to Maori life. Its continued