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WHAKAREWAREWA FOREST PARK
Edited by John Boyd
80 p. 1983. $6.00 plus 85c p & p
This handbook is a guide to the recreational facilities, forestry operations, history and wildlife of the park, unique in that it borders on to a large city, just 5 kilometres from the city centre of Rotorua. Visitors to the park may stroll midst trees and ferns; study trees, shrubs and ferns; watch birds; look for insects; picnic in shady glades; cycle or ride a horse on old logging tracks.

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS: Preparing Manuscripts for Publication
Edited by Paula J. Wagemaker
52 p. 1984. $7.50 plus 85c p & p
Submitting a manuscript to a publisher is not simply a matter of handing over a sheaf of paper. Publishers usually insist that a manuscript and its accompanying illustrative material be presented to defined standards of preparation. The standards of preparation required are detailed in these guidelines which have been produced in the interest of ensuring harmonious relationship between authors and their publishers.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE IN NEW ZEALAND
Edited by R. C. Mascarenhas
133 p. 1984. $15.00 plus $1.50 p & p
This volume is the result of a conference “Public enterprise and Private enterprise: Protagonist or Partners?” sponsored by the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration. The conference took place from 23–25 August 1982, at Dunedin, and its purpose was to examine the relative roles of the public and private sectors and to identify the social and political issues which are likely to have significant implications for public administration.

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.

CAR OPERATING COSTS
This booklet is designed to assist vehicle owners to identify and possibly reduce operating costs. The current edition sets out the costs of operation for six classes of vans, pickups, light trucks and utilities. A new edition is published annually.

(Customers may place their name on the Standing Order Service for this annual at the nearest Government Bookshop. A pre-payment form to cover the cost of the publication plus post and packing will be forwarded when the publication is printed.)

EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT: For Busy Managers
STATE SERVICES COMMISSION
114p. 1974. $4.95 plus 55c p & p
Management has been described as “what managers do”. But what is that? Getting things done? Getting other people to do them? Using resources economically? And what does the ‘effective’ manager do? This book looks at answers to such questions. It has been written as an introduction to the subject, especially for New Zealand managers who want to manage their organisation better.

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 States 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.

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.

THE SURRENDER AND OCCUPATION OF JAPAN
Edited by Robin Kay
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
1782 p. 1982. $75.00 plus $4.80 p & p
This is the second of a series of three volumes of documents on New Zealand’s external relations: the first, “The Australian - New Zealand Agreement 1944”, this volume “The Surrender and Occupation of Japan” which covers six divisions of the period, selected by topic but dealt with chronologically within topics, and reveals the growing awareness amongst those responsible for a New Zealand policy of what New Zealand’s interest actually were; the third volume, “The ANZUS Pact and the Treaty of Peace With Japan”, not yet published, will show something of the new order of things in the Pacific and the difficulties in the role of a small, though articulate, power in the formation of what in fact were Great Power policies.