1200 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 43

TOWN BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND

Wall Posters

Size: 840 x 590 mm $4.95 each plus 55c p & p

Two stunning large wall posters display a total of 35 bird photographs from the book ‘Field Guide To Town Birds’. The photographs are shown in full colour against a black background giving a sparkling eye-catching display of each bird in all its photographic detail.

FUR, FEATHER AND FIN

Frances M. Ross

47 p. 1983. Illustrated $2.25 plus 55c p & p

This booklet takes a nostalgic look at a century of wildlife in the Te Anau region. With historical monochrome photographs and text, Frances Ross has compiled a very interesting account of the impact that man has made on the flora and fauna of the region. A Tourist Guide to Te Anau, just as it appeared in Tourist Guide to the Lakes, Mountains and Fiords of Otago, published by the Government Printer in 1898, has been thoughtfully included to round off this glimpse into our past.

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 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 This edition has a new and perceptive introduction by Michael King and in addition the original seven page index has been replaced by a substantial and comprehensive index.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.

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.

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.

THE LONG YARN OF THE LAW

By Fiona McMorran

80 p. 1983. $6.95 plus 85c p & p

Told through prose, verse, extracts from newspapers and diaries, and policeman’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.

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.

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 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 Mervyn 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; 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

Encaseed 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.

MANPOWER PLANNING IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

STATE SERVICES COMMISSION

51 p. 1981. Discussion Paper No. 1. $3.95 plus 55c p & p

“Manpower planning” is a term which has a wide and rather ill-defined meaning. This report, addressed to the central question: “What is manpower planning?”, opens with the philosophy of manpower planning, what it is, its aims and objectives. This is followed by a discussion of what is involved in forecasting the supply and demand for people and skills in the public service. The essentials of departmental manpower are then discussed followed by a chapter devoted to the practice of career development and concluding with a statement on the future development of manpower planning in the public service.