HEALTH ADMINISTRATION IN NEW ZEALAND
Institute of Public Administration, 1969
128 pages.
Price $2.

HISTORICAL RECORDS OF NEW ZEALAND
The two volumes of Historical Records of New Zealand,
edited by Robert McNab, were originally published in 1908
with the object of affording the fullest information obtain-
able concerning the foundation, progress, and government
of New Zealand.

This is a limited edition and we have had only 1,500 sets
printed in Ochre Lionide with handsome black and gold
blocking on the spine, coloured end-paper, and dust jackets.
There are still available sets of these valuable prestige
volumes.

Volume I consists of 780 pages and Volume II, 650 pages.
Price $20.00.

THE HISTORY OF THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING
OFFICE
By W. A. GLUE
194 pages, illustrated.
Price $2.

HOLIDAY IN ANDALUSIA
By HOWARD ROBINSON
48 pages.
Price 20c.

HOW TO REPAIR ELECTRICAL FUSES, ETC., SAFELY
28 pages, illustrated.
Price 15c.

HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE BUSH, ON THE COAST,
IN THE MOUNTAINS OF NEW ZEALAND
By Flight Lieutenant B. HILDRETH
RNZAF
151 pages.
Price 50c.

A HUNTING GUIDE TO INTRODUCED WILD
ANIMALS OF NEW ZEALAND
By L. H. Harris, New Zealand Forest Service
111 pages.
Price $2.

IMPORT LICENSING SCHEDULE
1975-76 Licensing Period
Price 25c.

INDUSTRIAL CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION IN
NEW ZEALAND
By N. S. Woods
Royal 8vo, cloth bound, blocked on spine in gold, coloured
jacket, 208 pages, 13 pages of illustrations.
Price 90c.

INSECT PESTS
By G. A. H. HELSON, M.SC.(HONS.), M.N.Z.I.A.S.
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Bulletin 413.

This book provides information on identification, life
history, and control of pests of farms, horticulture, gardens
and public health.

To be able to control insect-pest populations requires an
understanding of their anatomy, time taken from egg to adult,
how they feed and grow, their habits, the life stage causing
damage, their food, and where they live.

195 pages.
Price $1.65.

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 $1.00.

JOINERY IN NEW ZEALAND
PART I, DOORS
70 pages, illustrated.
Price 90c.

PART II, DOOR FRAMES, TRANSOMS, ETC.
112 pages, illustrated.
Price 85c.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 42

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.

KIIN 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 treat-
ments 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 grad-
ing 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
availability should help the reader to obtain a basic back-
ground to old-time Maori life which can be extended by
further reading.

295 pages. 1974 reprint.
Price $6.50.