12 AUGUST
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
1905

CHILD ABUSE IN NEW ZEALAND
342 p. $4.50
A report on a nation-wide survey of the physical ill-treatment of children in New Zealand. (Department of Social Welfare.)

CHOOSING A JOB
12 p. 20c
Although this booklet is primarily for young people leaving school, the advice it gives will be helpful to many others who are considering a new job. It discusses how to choose the right job; how to find out what the work is about; how to prepare for an interview, and what to do during the interview. (State Services Commission.)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF NIUE
By W. R. Sykes (Botany Division)
N.Z. DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH BULLETIN 200
321 p., 46 illustrations. $5
The result of a botanical survey made on Niue Island in 1965 as part of a programme of DSIR assistance to the island administration. It is an up-to-date account of Niue’s forest, scrub, and crop species, and its weeds and ferns.

THE COURTS AND CRIMINAL PUNISHMENTS
Three lectures by Sir John Barry
91 p. $1.50
Sir John Barry was Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1947 to 1969. The lectures published in this book were prepared by him for delivery in New Zealand but illness prevented him from making the visit and the lectures have been published in the form in which he intended to deliver them.

CRIME IN NEW ZEALAND
A SURVEY OF NEW ZEALAND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR
417 p. 1974 reprint. $6.50
In this study of crime, the object is to provide not only statistical information but to describe the administrative procedures and law. This book is not just a colourless official document. The authors compiled the text with the intention of making it interesting to all readers. A well balanced publication aimed at giving the reader a clear insight into law in New Zealand. (Department of Justice.)

CROWN COLONY GOVERNMENT IN NEW ZEALAND
By A. H. McLintock
475 p., illustrated. 1958. $2.40
This book, which deals with a little known and understood period of New Zealand history, comprises three distinct sections, first, the Coming of Sovereignty; secondly, Men and Government; and thirdly, the Evolution of a Constitution. While this book will be of special interest to New Zealanders it will command a wider audience since it contains much that is new with respect to British colonial policy in the first half of the nineteenth century.

THE CURRIE REPORT: TEN YEARS LATER
By John L. Ewing
EDUCATION MAGAZINE NO. 6
49 p. 10c
This is a follow up to the Report of the Commission on Education in New Zealand after 10 years have lapsed, in answer to many questions still unanswered. It deals with trends, areas of concern, influences, and recommendations. (Department of Education.)

DIRECTIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
A REPORT PREPARED BY THE ADVISORY COUNCIL ON EDUCATIONAL PLANNING
141 p. 1975. $2.25
This report marks the culmination of the activities of the Educational Development Conference. The Advisory Council has recommended the directions it considers New Zealand education should go in the next 5 or 10 years.

Five principal areas are identified as requiring attention.

Education is seen as a lifelong activity, and emphasis is therefore placed on the “foundations”—early childhood education, the school curriculum and special provisions for special needs, and parent education.

Special attention is given also to the relationship between the school and the community, the need for close mutual support and co-operation, including understanding and respect for minority cultures.

A key to the quality of education is the people involved in it. Teacher education, the availability of advisory and ancillary staff, as well as resources for materials and research, have a chapter devoted to them.

Since education is seen as a lifelong activity, this is considered at some length. Facets such as accessibility, transfer of credits, and the role of existing institutions are discussed, together with ways in which continuing education could be provided for the whole community.

In discussing the administration and organisation of education the principle followed is the maximum devolution of authority and responsibility to the agencies and the community, at for instance, school committee and district level.

DISEASES OF TREE FRUITS IN NEW ZEALAND
By J. D. Atkinson (Plant Diseases Division)
INFORMATION SERIES NO. 81
406 p., 183 illustrations. $7.50
A summary of current knowledge, including a considerable amount of previously unrecorded information. It is written primarily for advisory officers, students, and growers, and no attempt has been made to give full descriptions of the bacteria, fungi, and viruses.

A DICTIONARY OF THE MAORI LANGUAGE
By H. W. Williams
The seventh revised edition, augmented by the advisory committee on the teaching of the Maori language. $6

DOMINION MUSEUM MONOGRAPHS
Elsdon Best (1856–1931), who was a member of the staff of the Dominion Museum from 1911 to 1931, made a notable contribution to the study of Maori ethnology. After a lifetime of experience, including many years in close contact with the Maoris of the Urewera, he spent the last 20 years of his life writing particularly of the social customs and beliefs of the Maori people. There is still a demand for the many monographs written by Elsdon Best and the following titles have been reprinted without alteration to the original text (National Museum) :

No. 1. Some Aspects of Maori Myth and Religion. 43 p. 60
No. 2. Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori. 57 p. 75
No. 3. The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori. 80 p. 60
No. 4. The Maori Division of Time. 51 p. 60
No. 5. Polynesian Voyagers. 54 p. 80
No. 6. The Maori School of Learning. 31 p. 50

ECONOMICS OF THE NEW ZEALAND MAORI
By Raymond Firth
519 p. 1972. $7
The Maori people are honourably known far outside the confines of their New Zealand home. Acknowledged to be one of the finest of the native races within the British Commonwealth they have long been celebrated for their splendid physical appearance, their proud bearing, their aristocratic spirit, their fluent oratory, and above all for their prowess in war. This book contains an account of the social and economic organisation of the Maori people before the organisation was transformed by contact with Western civilisation. It is a major scientific contribution to economic anthropology and has now become a standard work.

EDUCATIONAL PLANNING IN NEW ZEALAND
432 p. 1974. $6
This book contains the papers presented at a seminar on educational planning held at Victoria University of Wellington from 14 to 19 May 1972. This seminar was intended to lay the foundation for later seminars which would probe education problems in depth. Three main themes were chosen for the seminar, “Educational planning in its relation to national economic planning”, “Planning the structure and content of education”, and “Information and techniques for educational planning”. Edited by W. L. Renwick and L. J. Ingham, this book will interest a wide range of people.