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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 142

THE ELSDON BEST COLLECTION
Elsdon Best spent some twenty years in close contact with the Maori people. His writings, outstanding descriptive accounts of all facets of the old time Maori culture, social customs, and beliefs, have now become classics. The Elsdon Best collection consists of the following titles:

Fishing Methods and Devices of the Maori .......................... $15.95 plus $1.50 p & p
The Stone Implements of the Maori ............................ $11.95 plus $1.50 p & p
Maori Religion and Mythology I ............................... $18.00 plus $1.50 p & p
Maori Religion and Mythology II .............................. $47.50 plus $3.65 p & p
The Whare Kohanga and Its Lore .............................. $5.75 plus $0.85 p & p
The Maori Canoe ............................................ $17.50 plus $1.50 p & p
Games and Pastimes of the Maori ............................ $17.00 plus $1.50 p & p
Pa Maori, The .............................................. $15.00 plus $1.50 p & p
Maori Storehouses and Kindred Structures .................... $6.50 plus $0.85 p & p
Maori Agriculture ......................................... $13.50 plus $1.50 p & p
Forest Lore of the Maori .................................. $17.95 plus $1.50 p & p

SAFETY IN SMALL CRAFT
By Captain G. Wearing
241 p. 1982. Illustrated. $14.50 plus $1.50 p & p
This rewritten edition of Safety in Small Craft is an attempt by the Small Boat Safety Committee to ensure that the information so essential to good boating is once more available in an up-to-date form.

SPORT SERIES
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
A series of sport booklets, designed as guide books for teachers, coaches, and players is one of the most popular series of sport instruction titles published by the Government Printer and is highly recommended:

Athletics ................................................. $1.30 plus 40c p & p
Basketball ................................................ $3.75 plus 55c p & p
Campcraft ................................................. $2.75 plus 55c p & p
Canoeing .................................................. $4.25 plus 55c p & p
Hockey .................................................... $14.50 plus $1.50 p & p
Gymnastics ................................................ $4.95 plus 55c p & p
Orienteering .............................................. $6.75 plus 85c p & p
Rugby ..................................................... $1.00 plus 40c p & p
Table Tennis .............................................. $1.00 plus 40c p & p
Tennis .................................................... $3.75 plus 55c p & p
Weight Training ........................................... $7.50 plus 85c p & p

CARPENTRY
N.Z. TECHNICAL CORRESPONDENCE INSTITUTE
302 p. 1980 (reprint). Illustrated. $22.50 plus $3.60 p & p
Metricated with more than 450 illustrations, this edition contains a set of fold-out house plans. It also highlights safety and safe methods, elementary first aid, house design and construction. Besides providing a basic text for apprentices in the building industry, Carpentry will also provide a sound guide for tradesmen and home-builders. The seventh revised edition, augmented by the advisory committee on the teaching of Maori language.

FACSIMILES OF THE TREATY OF WAITANGI
1976. $12.95 plus $1.50 p & p
A valuable volume of old New Zealand records comprising:
The Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand.
The original draft of the Treaty by Governor Hobson.
A series of copies of the Treaty itself as finally adopted and signed by the chiefs and witnesses.
The preface and facsimiles are reproduced from lithographic originals first printed 1877. (Government Printer.)

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.

NEW ZEALAND FOREST PARKS
Geoffrey Chavasse and John Johns
288 p. 1983. Illustrated. $42.95 plus $3.60 p & p
New Zealand Forest Parks is one of those books that you will reach for time after time to simply enjoy or to relive visits made, to plan visits to come. Each forest park is described in a separate chapter with photographs, text, maps, and charts to illustrate our nineteen forest parks, perhaps unrivalled for diversity and interest anywhere else in the world.

THE NEW ZEALAND WARS
By James Cowan
Vol. I, 466 p. Vol. II, 633 p. $69.50 plus $4.80 p & p
This book was first published in 1922 and reprinted without amendments in 1955. It has been out of print for many years. This edition has a new and perceptive introduction by Michael King and in addition the original seven page index has been replaced by a substantial and comprehensive index. This 1983 edition is called a facsimile edition because it is being reproduced from the original text. However, the introduction, index and illustrations include alterations and improvements on the original.

THE LONG YARN OF THE LAW
By Fiona McMorrann
80 p. 1983. $6.95 plus 85c p & p
Told through prose, verse, extracts from newspapers and diaries, and policemen’s recollections, the book takes the reader from those early colonial days to the modern police force of today. This inexpensive and easy to read history is a valuable aid for teachers and a source of continuing interest for children.

THE NEW ZEALAND ARMY
A History from the 1840s to the 1980s
117 p. 1982. Illustrated. $5.25 plus 85c p & p
The reader is given an outline history of the Army, from the days of Maori Chief Hone Heke in the 1840’s to the present day. The 117 page history contains over 100 photographs and paintings, many of which are published for the first time.

JOINERY
N.Z. TECHNICAL CORRESPONDENCE INSTITUTE
Joinery, Part I, is the first of four books prepared by the Technical Correspondence School. It deals with methods of construction of doors, framed and ledged door, panelled doors, flush doors, and glazed doors.

Joinery, Part II, deals with door frames, transons, and sidelights; sliding, folding, and special doors; hardware, finishing, and gates.

Joinery, Part III, covers window joinery. It also deals with built-in-fittings, carcass work; fitment doors and drawers.

Woodworking Machinery, is the fourth book in the series, covering circular saws, saw blades, surface planing, and thickness machines, vertical spindle moulding machines, and other machines commonly used in woodworking establishments.

Joinery Part I ............................................ $9.95 plus $0.85 p & p
Joinery Part II ........................................... $5.25 plus $0.85 p & p
Joinery Part III .......................................... $15.95 plus $1.50 p & p
Woodworking Machinery ................................... $9.95 plus $0.85 p & p