1180 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 33

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

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GENERAL PUBLICATIONS

METRICS FOR JOHN AND JANE CITIZEN

By James McGill Webb

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SERVICE—DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR

48 p. 50c

As the name implies this book is written for use by the layman rather than the technician, the engineer, or the scientist. This book does not include conversion tables but rather relates to metric units and their use, comparisons of size and includes a wide range of metric information. How big is a litre? What is a kilopascal? When will I use a centimetre? What will I buy in kilograms? Why is New Zealand going metric? If these and similar questions are causing you concern this book will provide the answers.

MICROZONING FOR EARTHQUAKES EFFECTS IN WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND

By T. L. Grant-Taylor, R. D. Adams, T. Hatherton, J. D. G. Milne, R. D. Northey, and W. R. Stephenson of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research

BULLETIN 213

61 p. $8.50

This report on earthquake microzoning is aimed at dividing extensive areas of Wellington into smaller zones and is intended as a guide only to planning of future redevelopment. The detailed studies of local geology and soil investigations have resulted in an Earthquake Microzone Map of Wellington. This map accompanies this publication. This report is the first one of a series. Later it is the intention to microzone other areas in the same way.

MOA-HUNTER PERIOD OF MAORI CULTURE

ROGER DUFF—CANTERBURY MUSEUM BULLETIN No. 1

436 p. 3rd edition, 1977. $17.50

This book deals with the most important site yet investigated and in its discussions it traverses most of the New Zealand archaeological field.

A chance discovery in 1939 by a 13-year-old boy revealed the grave of a chief in the gravels of the Wairau bolder bank. The grave, goods, and bones of the ancient chief, prone in his gravel grave, with skull directed towards the setting sun, spoke with more authority regarding his race than the distorted memories of Maori tradition.

Although scholarly and technical, the book sustains throughout the drama of this archaeological discovery, and recreates from the evidence of bone and stone the life of our first Polynesians in the Moa-hunter period of Maori culture.

NATIONAL INCOME AND EXPENDITURE 1974—75

22 p. 1976. $1

The national accounts record the value of goods and services produced by a community in a particular period and the way in which these are used. Within the accounts the flows of production and disposal of goods and incomes are analysed in ways to provide information on the inter-relationship between industrial and institutional sections of an economy and between an economy and the rest of the world.

NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETINS

By Elsdon Best

Government Printer, reprinted Price

No. 4. Stone Implements of the Maori ..... ..... 11 95
No. 5. Maori Storehouses and Kindred Structures ..... 6 50
No. 6. Pa Maori, The ..... ..... ..... 15 00
No. 7. Maori Canoe ..... ..... ..... 17 50
No. 8. Games and Pastimes of the Maori ..... ..... 17 00
No. 9. Maori Agriculture ..... ..... ..... 13 50

No. 10 Maori Religion and Mythology, Part 1 ..... 18 00
No. 11. Maori Religion and Mythology, Part 2. due 1977
No. 12. Fishing Methods and Devices of the Maori. due 1977
No. 13. Te Whare Kohanga and Its Lore ..... ..... 5 75
No. 14. Forest Lore of the Maori ..... ..... 17 95

NATIONAL MUSEUM MONOGRAPHS

Elsdon Best (1856–1931), who was a member of the staff of the then 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. $1
No. 2. Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori. 57 p. $1
No. 3. The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori. 80 p. 75c
No. 4. The Maori Division of Time. 51 p. ..... ..... $1
No. 5. Polynesian Voyagers. 54 p. ..... ..... ..... $1
No. 6. The Maori School of Learning. 31 p. ..... ..... $1
No. 7. Bibliography of Printed Maori to 1900 ..... ..... $4.25
No. 8. Maori Houses and Food Stores ..... ..... ..... $3.75

NATIONAL PARKS OF NEW ZEALAND

178 p. Revised third edition. 1974. $10.50

The revision of this popular publication has included numerous new colour plates and additional information on some of our parks. Because of the popularity of this book it is expected this edition will be in great demand. In addition to the book being an ideal souvenir for the overseas visitor it makes an ideal gift and also a valuable asset to anyone's home library.

NELSON LAKES NATIONAL PARK

NELSON LAKES NATIONAL PARK BOARD HANDBOOK

87 p. 10 colour plates, 10 black and white and maps; Revised. 1974 $2

This third edition of the park handbook revises some of the original contributions and includes reference to developments which have occurred since the last edition was published.

In three parts the handbook gives general information, describes the Rotoiti Lodge, discovery, sports and recreation, including walks, tramping, mountaineering, skiing, hunting; the weather and climate, geology, botany and zoology; and an appendix with a list of birds recorded during 1960–73; and a botanical key.

NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURE

287 p. 1974. $2.50

This book describes the characteristic features of New Zealand farming and of the organisations associated with it. The comprehensive coverage contained in this publication is invaluable to students and those interested in the agricultural industry. (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.)

NEW ZEALAND AND THE ANTARCTIC

By L. B. Quartermain

269 p., illustrated. 1971. $6.50

The sole aim of this book is to provide the general reader with a balanced and accurate, though necessarily condensed, account of the part which has been played by New Zealand in the discovery of Antarctica and the unveiling of its secrets.

NEW ZEALAND AT THE TURNING POINT

December 1976. $4.50

Chairman, F. Holmes

Report of the Task Force on Economic and Social Planning.

The group was established to prepare recommendations on the shape of a future planning mechanism for New Zealand, and to examine the main trends and issues to which such a body would have to give its attention. (Treasury.)