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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 100

JOINT COMMITTEE REPORTS ON YOUNG OFFENDERS
1975.
Resulting from a major longitudinal study into the social adjustment of New Zealand boys, the following reports seek to answer the question: "To what extent is it possible to predict from specific information collected at the age of ten those boys who will later become delinquent or show other signs of maladjustments".

RESEARCH REPORT No. 1
$2.75
The Structure of the Bristol Social Adjustment Guide.

RESEARCH REPORT No. 2
$1
The Effects of Race and Socio-Economic Status on Juvenile Offending Statistics.

RESEARCH REPORT No. 3
$3
The Prediction of Juvenile Offending: A New Zealand Study.

LAND ALONE ENDURES
DSIR Discussion Paper No. 3
286 p. 1980. $12 plus $1.25 p & p
This discussion document comes at the start of a decade of significant national development and, hence, of changes in land use. "Land use" like "Energy" will be of key importance during the 1980s as New Zealand moves to diversify its primary production, develop its resources of minerals and energy, and conserve its flora and fauna.

LAND USE POLICIES
STUDIES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: No. 21
185 p. 1976. $5 plus 45c p & p
Land Use Policies is an up-to-the-minute publication resulting from the NZIPA Convention of 1975. Contributors include the Hon. D. MacIntyre, then 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.

LIVING LETTERS
STATE SERVICES COMMISSION
36 p. 1980 reprint. $1.75 plus 45c p & p
One of the aims in letter writing is to get ideas across to the reader clearly and briefly. But do letters always say what is meant? Even if they are clear to the writer, will the reader understand them easily? If you are still using the old cliches of "acknowledging receipt of", "according to our records", and "enclosed please find" it is almost certainly time to change your attitude to writing living letters.

MAORI RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY PART 1
By Elsdon Best
NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN NO. 10
424 p. 1976. $18 plus $1.25 p & p
An account of the theory of the universe and its creation, study of the origin of man, religious beliefs, rites, magic and folklore of the Maori people of New Zealand. First published in 1924, reprinted without textual alterations and retaining the original bulletin numbers. (Government Printer.)

MOA-HUNTER PERIOD OF MAORI CULTURE
ROGER DUFF—CANTERBURY MUSEUM BULLETIN No. 1
436 p. 3rd edition, 1977. $17.50 plus $1.25 p & p
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 boulder 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.

MAORI
By Witi Ihimaera
45 p. 1975. $1.20 plus 35c p & p
A colourful booklet describing the coming of the Maori to New Zealand, his history, heritage, folklore, beliefs, and cultural unity.

Each chapter has a quotation from a Maori proverb, phrase, saying, or canoe chant and these concepts are presented in words and pictures.

Continues with the arrival of the pakeha and the pattern of events which followed, the Treaty of Waitangi and the Land Wars. Moves on to the Maori today, finishing with the theme, one country, two heritages in unity.

Well illustrated with 64 coloured photos, of interest to all New Zealanders and tourists. (Tourist and Publicity Department.)

MAORI AGRICULTURE
By Elsdon Best
NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN No. 9
315 p. 1976. $13.50 plus $1.25 p & p
The only comprehensive study of Maori agriculture available, this bulletin adds a further volume to the series of Elsdon Best's works which the Government Printer undertook to reprint preserving the original text and bulletin numbers. I recommend this book and the series as a whole; to collectors, archaeologists, and to those studying the prehistoric economy of the Maori people. (Government Printer.)

CONTENTS

Price $1.65 BY AUTHORITY: P. D. HASSELBERG, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND—1981