21 APRIL
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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book covers the growth of New Zealand as a nation. In addition the author includes in her own narrative some fascinating stories of human interest. (Ministry of Works and Development.)

CAR OPERATING COSTS
1976 EDITION, ECONOMICS DIVISION, MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT
21 p. July 1976.
50c
This bulletin sets out the estimated costs of operation for five classes of motor cars and two classes for vans, pickups, and light trucks. Designed to assist vehicle owners in identifying and reducing operating costs, this bulletin, along with the Ministry of Transport bulletin “Truck Operating Costs”, will no longer be available for free distribution. “Car Operating Costs” is now available from all Government bookshops for 50c.

CENSUS OF POPULATION AND DWELLINGS 1976
Provisional Population and Dwellings Statistics
52 p. 1976.
$1
This bulletin contains the provisional statistics on population and dwelling numbers from the 26th Census of Population and Dwellings taken on the night of 23 March 1976. (Department of Statistics.)

CHALLENGE FOR HEALTH
By F. S. Maclean, B.A., M.D.(CAM.), D.P.H.(N.Z.)
470 p., photo plates.
$2
In this interesting book the author describes the history of public health in New Zealand. Included is an account of the 1900 world pandemic of bubonic plague and its effects in New Zealand. After this epidemic the Department of Public Health was set up, and took independence from local authorities in the matters of public health. This book tells also of the improvements in sanitary conditions throughout the country and the attempts to improve the health of the Maori people.

THE CHANGING VEGETATION OF MOLESWORTH STATION NEW ZEALAND 1944–1971
NEW ZEALAND DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH, BULLETIN 217
118 p. 1976.
$3.30
Totalling 700 square miles, the broad expanse of high altitude Crown land known as Molesworth Station is the largest single farm unit in New Zealand. In 1938, after 70 years of leasehold farming the Molesworth and Tarndale runs reverted to the Crown in a badly depleted state. This is an account of the recovering of the land at Molesworth for productive farming and should prove very interesting and informative to all high country farmers.

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.
30c
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.)

COMMON WEEDS IN NEW ZEALAND
By B. E. V. Parham and A. J. Healey. Photographs by J. Somer Cocks.
1976.
$6.75
Lavishly illustrated, this is an excellent guide to the identification of some of New Zealand’s commonest weeds and to show how they differ from other species with which they might be confused. (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.)

CONSERVING NEW ZEALAND’S HERITAGE
By P. H. C. Lucas
94 p. 1970.
$1.40
In 1969 Mr Lucas went on a study tour of national parks and allied areas in Canada and the United States. On his return to New Zealand he wrote this report as a suggested guideline for national parks and reserves administrators. Many of the problems experienced by older countries could be avoided by a careful study of their mistakes and with this in mind Mr Lucas has concluded each section with a summary of lessons for New Zealand. Not only of interest to the general public but also to park administrators and planners, tourist promoters, historians, and archaeologists.

COUNTRY ANALYSIS OF EXTERNAL TRADE
JULY 1974–JUNE 1975
1976.
$2
This supplement analyses the total exports of New Zealand produce and imports according to commodity groups and countries of destination or origin. (Department of Statistics.)

COUNTRY ANALYSES OF EXTERNAL TRADE
JULY–DECEMBER 1975
94 p. 1976.
$2
Compiled from the Customs import and export entries received regularly from all ports of entry, this supplement provides a useful set of country analyses complementary to the export and import data released monthly. (Department of Statistics.)

THE COURTS AND CRIMINAL PUNISHMENTS
Three lectures by Sir John Barry
91 p.
$2.25
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.
$7.25
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.
$4.50
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.

A DICTIONARY OF THE MAORI LANGUAGE
By H. W. Williams
$7.50. Interleaved, $9
The seventh revised edition, augmented by the advisory committee on the teaching of the Maori language.

DIRECTIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
A REPORT PREPARED BY THE ADVISORY COUNCIL ON EDUCATIONAL PLANNING
141 p. 1975.
$2.50
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.