534 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 23

INFORMATION IN FORMATION
A Guide to Report Writing
STATE SERVICES COMMISSION
31 p. 1978. $1.45 plus 40c p & p
Contains helpful suggestions for preparing, planning, organising, structuring, writing, and revising reports, ideas on visual aids and descriptions of a few of the many types of reports.

LIVING LETTERS
STATE SERVICES COMMISSION
36 p. 1980 reprint. $1.75 plus 55c 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?

TREES AND SHRUBS OF NEW ZEALAND
By A. L. Poole and Nancy M. Adams
275 p. 1979 fourth impression with amendments. $15.95 plus $1.50 p & 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.

5BX PLAN
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
32 pp. 1981. Third Edition. $1.75 plus 55c p & p
The five basic exercises (5BX) Plan is designed to show how to develop and hold a high level of physical fitness. The scheme is not dependent on elaborate facilities or equipment. The exercises require only eleven minutes a day and can be done in the house or office. The Plan is scientifically designed to develop personal fitness at a rate set by yourself, to your required level, without getting stiff or sore muscles. It is self measuring with charts for age groupings, along with graduated standards for checking progress. The programmes are designed for varying age groups of males.

XBX PLAN
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
86 pp. 1981 Eighth Edition. $3.25 plus 55C p & p
The XBX Plan for physical fitness has been designed for varying age groups of girls and women. The ten exercises in this booklet have been selected and their manner of use has been designed to enable women to achieve physical well being and to improve desirable qualities such as vitality, appearance, and personality. The XBX has been planned for gradual, painless progression toward physical fitness which will take just 12 minutes per day to do.

INTRODUCING MANAGEMENT SERVICES IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE
STATE SERVICES COMMISSION
34 p. 1982 reprinted. $2.75 plus 55c p & p
Management Services is one means by which managers may obtain objective advice on their methods of carrying out their management role. This booklet is designed to explain to Public Service Managers how Management Services may help them to fulfil their management task.

OPEN JUSTICE
A Guide to Information Within the Department of Justice
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
88 p. 1982. $3.50 plus 55c p & p
Produced jointly by Brian Priestley and the Department of Justice, this publication is intended to capture and hold the reader’s attention and facility to ready referencing of the subject covered. It does this admirably in being a guide to the information available to the public within one of New Zealand’s most important and complex Government departments, as well as a booklet which is likely to be read and considered by many people interested in the campaign for more openness in government.

WAYS AND MEANINGS
A Guide to Interviewing Pacific Islanders
STATE SERVICES COMMISSION
8 p. 1981. $1.00 plus 40c p & p
This booklet is intended as a guide for those whose work involves interviewing, for various purposes, recent Pacific Island migrants to New Zealand.

WHO MAKES SOCIAL POLICY?
N.Z. PLANNING COUNCIL
60 p. 1982 N.Z. Planning Council. Paper No. 20. $5.25 plus 85c p & p
This report is largely descriptive and interpretive. It reaches conclusions, but stops short of making recommendations for improvement. It is believed that its analysis and conclusions will be useful to many people concerned with social policy, inside and outside the Government system.

THE BOAT OWNER’S GUIDE TO CORROSION
by L. H. Bolton
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
31 p. 1982. Illustrated. D.S.I.R. Info. Series No. 155 $4.25 plus 55c p & p
Much has been written about marine corrosion and its mitigation and yet the same problems and many old misconceptions still seem to persist. This booklet aims to assist the boat owner to identify the basic types of metallic corrosion, to understand their causes and the procedures that should be followed to avoid corrosion situations from developing in the first instance.

THE STATE IN BUSINESS:
Public Enterprise in New Zealand
By Jeanette Johnson and Adrienne von Tunzelmann
83 p. 1982. N.Z. Planning Council. Paper No. 15. $5.95 plus 85c p & p
The authors’ main aim is to present a framework for exploring questions prevalent in current public debate, such as the justification for government involved in enterprise, the scope for private sector provision, and efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability in public enterprise.

THE PATH TO REFORM
Edited by C. Burns
219 p. 1982. $15.75 plus $1.50 p & p
The Path to Reform, derived from the 1981 Convention of the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration is about the path to administrative reform in the State Services in New Zealand. It continues the exploration of the State Services begun in “State Servants and the Public in the 1980’s” and continued in the “Accountability of Executive.” Like its predecessors, “The Path to Reform” reads like a Who’s Who of New Zealand public administrators.

DIMENSIONS OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR 1960–1981
By Mervyne J. Pope
90 p. 1982. N.Z. Planning Council. Paper No. 16 $6.00 plus 85c p & p
Mervyne Pope presents and discusses some new data series designed to give a broad overview of the nature and extent of public sector involvement in the New Zealand economy. Subjects include Government as a Tax Collector; As a Spender; As a Producer; As a Provider of Household Incomes; Composition of Government Non-Market Sector Expenditure; What Government Provides; Organisational Form; Funding-Current Activity; Capital Formation, and Capital Funding.

NEW ZEALAND ATLAS OF COASTAL RESOURCES
Edited by Philip Tortell
28 p. 1981. Illustrated. Coastal Maps. $29.50 plus $3.00 p & p
Encased in its own sturdy and attractive cylinder, the Atlas will be of interest to all those who use the coast to work and play, and is of particular value to students and teachers, engineers, planners, scientists, fishermen, boat owners, divers, marine farmers, and many other people interested in coastal resources.