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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 123

THE WHARE KOHANGA AND ITS LORE
By Elsdon Best
NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN No. 13
93 p. Reprint 1975.
$5.75 plus 85c p & p
In this study of Whare Kohanga (the “Nest House”) is contained data of baptism rites performed over infants of superior families only, together with other cultural ceremonies applied to infants of high birth. The information obtained was contributed by members of the Ngati-Kahungunu tribe of the North Island. The text has been retained in its original style in the belief that these basic studies should still be readily available without textual alteration.

MOA-HUNTER PERIOD OF MAORI CULTURE
ROGER DUFF—CANTERBURY MUSEUM BULLETIN No. 1
436 p. 3rd edition, 1977.
$17.50 plus $1.50 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.

THE MAORI CANOE
By Elsdon Best
NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN No. 7
451 p. 1976.
$17.50 plus $1.50 p & p
A reprinted edition without textual alterations and retaining the old Dominion Museum number. Another example of Elsdon Best’s dedicated effort to preserve Maori culture. The material presented on canoes, their materials, types, methods of construction, and associated artifacts make interesting reading for the layman as well as for scholars of the Maori. (Government Printer.)

WEED CONTROL BY CHEMICAL METHODS
By L. J. Mathews
AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES BULLETIN 329
710 p. Hard cover, 1975.
$35 plus $3.60 p & p
Possibly no subject in the whole field of agricultural technology has advanced as rapidly in recent years as that of chemical methods of weed control. This publication summarises and makes specific recommendations based on the experimental work conducted largely by the New Zealand Department of Agriculture. The book is divided into five sections:
Section 1—Principles of weed control and the uses of chemical weed killers.
Section 2—Supplies information on the control of many of New Zealand’s worst weeds.
Section 3—Gives recommendations for the control of weeds in crops, pastures, and other specific areas.
Section 4—Describes the chemicals and summarises their uses.
Section 5—Deals with application of herbicides.

TE REO RANGATIRA
By S. T. Karety
197 p. illustrated 1974.
$4.50 plus 55c p & p
A textbook for students of the Maori language written in the “Tuhoe” dialect. Its subject is contemporary Maori life with those aspects of the Maori heritage which prevail in it. This book is intended for advanced fifth formers and the sixth and seventh forms.

TREES AND SHRUBS OF NEW ZEALAND
By A. L. Poole and Nancy M. Adams
257 p. 1979 (fourth impression with amendments).
$15.95 plus $1.50 p. and p.
This book has been designed especially to assist many people who lack a formal botanical training yet are deeply interested in New Zealand’s trees and shrubs and want to be able to identify them and name them correctly. There is a complete coverage of the native trees and shrubs and over 400 species have been illustrated.

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