1952

THE INFORMATION MACHINE—COMPUTERS AND CITIZENS
By R. J. SPENCE
Department of Education
A bulletin for schools (E).
This bulletin describes in an easy to read form the workings of the computer. There are also questions answered on the need for computers and the role they play in modern-day living.
48 pages, illustrated.
Price 65c.
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.
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.
Price 40c

No.70

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.
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 background to old-time Maori life which can be extended by further reading.
295 pages. 1974 reprint.
Price $6.50.
CONTENTS
ADVERTISEMENTS ..... 1937
APPOINTMENTS ..... 1899
BANKRUPTCY NOTICES ..... 1934
DEFENCE NOTICES ..... 1898
LAND TRANSFER ACT: NOTICES ..... 1935
MISCELLANEOUS-
Canterbury Raspberry Marketing Regulations: Notice ..... 1911
Children and Young Persons Act: Notice ..... 1906
Climatological Table ..... 1924
Counties Act: Notice ..... 1905
Customs Tariff: Notices ..... 1913
Electricity Act: Notice ..... 1906
Harbours Act: Notices ..... 1909
Life Insurance Act: Notice ..... 1912
Local Authorities Loans Act: Notice ..... 1912
Maori Affairs Act: Notices ..... 1907
Milk Act: Notice ..... 1906
National Roads Act: Notices ..... 1910
Officiating Ministers: Notices ..... 1900
Overseas Investment Regulations: Notice ..... 1911
Potato Cyst Nematode Regulations: Notices ..... 1910
Public Works Act: Notices ..... 1901
Regulations Act: Notice ..... 1923
Reserves and Domains Act: Notices ..... 1905, 1906
Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act: Notices ..... 1912, 1933
Reserve Bank of New Zealand: Balance Sheet ..... 1934
Reserve Bank: Statement ..... 1932
Rural Banking and Finance Corporation Act: Notices ..... 1929
Schedule of Contracts: Notices ..... 1923, 1929
Standards Act: Notices ..... 1912
Transport Act: Notice ..... 1906
PROCLAMATIONS, ORDERS IN COUNCIL, AND WARRANTS ..... 1897
BY AUTHORITY: A. R. SHEARER, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND-1975