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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 99

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JOURNAL OF ENSIGN BEST
Edited by Nancy M. Taylor
465 p., illustrated. 1966. $3.50

Although intended as a personal record for his family, Ensign Best’s journal is a delightful account of his sojourn in Australia, Norfolk Island, and New Zealand. A random selection from the journal yields descriptions of hunting trips and picnics in New South Wales, vice-regal balls in Sydney, a bachelor’s party on Norfolk Island, pig hunting in the Wairarapa, the first race meeting in New Zealand, sailing on Auckland Harbour, the death and burial of Governor Hobson, and an expedition from Auckland to Taupo.

AN INTRODUCTION OF TRAINING METHODS
There are many people who may be called on to train staff and this booklet has been prepared as a guide and deals with methods, technique, and aids which can be used in training programmes. (State Services Commission.)
26 p. Revised and reset 1975 $1

JUVENILE CRIME IN NEW ZEALAND
(Department of Social Welfare, 1973)
43 p. 50c

KILN SCHEDULES FOR NEW ZEALAND TIMBERS
By J. A. Kininmonth and D. H. Williams
N.Z. FOREST SERVICE INFORMATION SERIES No. 69
16 p. 1974. 50c

This 16-page booklet outlines the selection of suitable kiln schedules. The inter-relationships 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.

LAND USE POLICIES
STUDIES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: No. 21
185 p. 1976. $5

Land Use Policies is an up-to-the-minute publication resulting from the NZIPA Convention of 1975. Contributors include the Hon. D. MacIntyre, now Minister of Maori Affairs and Agriculture; the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Ministers of Agriculture, Forests, Lands, and Science for the previous Government; the Commissioner for the Environment; the Assistant Director-General of Lands; the Head of the Urban Research Unit of Canberra; and many others. Topics range from land tenure systems to the history of the development of land use policies to the public acquisition of land for urban development. To assist readers each contribution is accompanied by a short summary. In addition most are also followed by a commentary and an edited record of the convention discussion of the paper.

MACHINE STRESS GRADING
(An alternative to visual grading of timber for strength)
NEW ZEALAND FOREST SERVICE INFORMATION SERIES No. 66, 1974
By I. D. Whiteside
36 p. $1.50

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.

MAORI
44 p. 1975 $1.20

This book begins with the Maori people who came to inhabit the land which the demi-God, Maui, fished up from the sea. The author gives an outline of the history and culture which has shaped the Maori of today. The book describes in word and picture how the Maori has come to terms with the European culture, his achievements and failures. All these topics are adequately covered by the author. (Tourist and Publicity Department.)

THE MAORI AS HE WAS
By Elsdon Best
295 p. 1974 reprint. $6.50

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