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PERSON TO PERSON

STATE SERVICES COMMISSION

13p. 1981. $1.50 plus 65c p & p
This book is a guide to your role in public relations and covers techniques that will help you establish good relations between your organisation and the public.

ABOUT SUPERVISION

STATE SERVICES COMMISSION

23p. 1979. $1.50 plus 65c p & p
You may be anxious about your new duties and responsibilities on your first job as a supervisor. This booklet will introduce you to some ways of making those duties and responsibilities easier to cope with.

AN INTRODUCTION TO TRAINING METHODS

STATE SERVICES COMMISSION

26p. 1978. $1.10 plus 65c p & p
This booklet is an introduction to training methods and summarises much of the content of a teaching methods course. It should prove helpful to people who have not had any formal training in teaching methods.

NO MARGIN FOR ERROR

STATE SERVICES COMMISSION

80p. 1977. $5.00 plus $1.50 p & p
This book is a style book for typed correspondence. It is intended for use by typists and by people who prepare letters, memoranda and reports for typing.

TRAINING WAYS

By Geoffrey Moss
119 p. 1983. Illustrated. $12.95 plus $2.00 p & p
Training Ways is the third and last book in the series of Advisor Aid Books. Like 'Way with Words' and 'Visual Aids' it is a book to help the supervisor, training manager, the tutor and the extension worker provide a successful training programme and a learning experience for adults.

FIELD GUIDE TO TOWN BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND

By Dr P. C. Bull
93 p. 1983. Illustrated. $9.95 plus $1.50 p & p
Each bird description is accompanied by a full colour photograph of the bird in its natural habitat. The birds are defined as either introduced or native and if it is a protected species. Then follows a full description of the adult bird, its call, where it is commonly found, its eating and nesting habits, how to identify the eggs, incubation period and lastly details of the young.

THE HOME VEGETABLE GARDEN

by Bee Baldwin
177 p. 1984. Illustrated.
Softcover $19.95 plus $2.00 p & p
Hardcover $27.95 plus $3.75 p & p
This book is a comprehensive, clearly-written, illustrated grow-your-own guide to raising fresh, vitamin-rich vegetables in any ordinary New Zealand garden.

CREATING WORK

by David Naulls
165 p. 1984. Illustrated. $8.50 plus $1.50 p & p
Creating Work has been written to help people to become self-employed. The book shows how skills—writing, baking, carpentry, whatever—can be turned into a profitable small business.

PRACTICAL BEEKEEPING IN NEW ZEALAND

by Andrew Matheson
185 p. 1984. Illustrated. $17.95 plus $2.00 p & p
Beekeepers will find details of honey bee management, advice on handling hive products, and information about many other beekeeping subjects. Those interested in beekeeping will find this book helpful in deciding whether to keep bees, and discovering what it involves.

FERTILISER AND SOILS IN NEW ZEALAND FARMING

by C. During
361 p. 1984. Illustrated. $35.00 plus $3.75 p & p
Traditionally regarded as the Bible in its field, this latest edition of Fertilisers and Soils in New Zealand Farming has been completely revised.

PARLIAMENT AND THE PEOPLE

by Beth Bowdon
50 p. 1984. Illustrated. $7.50 plus $1.50 p & p
This booklet sets out to:

  • describe New Zealand's Constitution
  • show in a reasonably simple way how it works
  • give an account of where it came from and how it developed
  • define (in a glossary) a number of terms that are used in connection with these matters.

GROWING WALNUTS

by B. J. Vavasour
78 p. 1984. Illustrated. $12.50 plus $2.00 p & p
Most New Zealanders have yet to discover the delicious fresh walnut. Growing Walnuts is an easy-to-read handbook for home gardeners, small farmers, and commercial growers.

SEVEN MAORI ARTISTS

Darcy Nicholas and Keri Kaa
88 pp. 1986. $18.95 plus $2.00 p & p
Using Māori protocol as a basic structure, Seven Maori Artists presents interviews with, and the work of, seven contemporary Māori artists. It is in essence a marae, where the reader is invited to sit down and meet the artists, who speak about their work and the influences they have experienced.

WOMEN IN WARTIME

Compiled by Lauris Edmund
200 pp. 1986. $29.95 plus $3.75 p & p
This book brings together New Zealand women's written and oral reminiscences of their lives during World Wars I and II. Extracts from diaries and letters are also included. The reminiscences contain both humour and hardship, making this the sort of book impossible to put down once begun.

WHAT GRASS IS THAT?

N. C. Lambrechtsen
150 pp. 1972. Revised edition 1986. $9.95 plus $1.50 p & p
This well-known book has been revised to include a new identification key and four more cereals. It covers a selection of the more common and economically important species, and will be helpful and informative to all readers, irrespective of their botanical knowledge.

EDIBLE TREE NUTS IN NEW ZEALAND

P. B. Bull, D. Jackson and T. Bedford
72 pp. 1985. $13.95 plus $2.00 p & p
Interested in growing nuts or improving the yield of your trees? Macadamias, hazelnuts, pistachios and other edible nuts can all be grown in New Zealand. Edible Tree Nuts tells you all there is to know about climatic requirements, propagation, pests and diseases, yields, harvesting and many other aspects of nut growing.

THE MAORI SCHOOL OF LEARNING

Elsdon Best
31 pp 1986 reprint $5.95 plus $1.50 p & p
This monograph, reprinted without revision, studies the objects, methods, and ceremonial side of the Whare Wananga, or Maori school of learning. It is rich in its store of material, and is indispensable for today's students.



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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏢 Person to Person

🏢 State Enterprises & Insurance
Public relations, Guide, State Services Commission

🏢 About Supervision

🏢 State Enterprises & Insurance
Supervision, Training, State Services Commission

🏢 An Introduction to Training Methods

🏢 State Enterprises & Insurance
Training methods, Teaching, State Services Commission

🏢 No Margin for Error

🏢 State Enterprises & Insurance
Style book, Typed correspondence, State Services Commission

🏢 Training Ways

🏢 State Enterprises & Insurance
Training, Supervision, Geoffrey Moss

🎓 Field Guide to Town Birds of New Zealand

🎓 Education, Culture & Science
Birds, Guide, Dr P. C. Bull

🌾 The Home Vegetable Garden

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Vegetable gardening, Guide, Bee Baldwin

👷 Creating Work

👷 Labour & Employment
Self-employment, Small business, David Naulls

🌾 Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Beekeeping, Honey, Andrew Matheson

🌾 Fertiliser and Soils in New Zealand Farming

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Fertiliser, Soils, Farming, C. During

🏛️ Parliament and the People

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Constitution, Parliament, Beth Bowdon

🌾 Growing Walnuts

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Walnuts, Gardening, B. J. Vavasour

🎓 Seven Maori Artists

🎓 Education, Culture & Science
Maori art, Artists, Darcy Nicholas, Keri Kaa

🎓 Women in Wartime

🎓 Education, Culture & Science
Women, Wartime, Reminiscences, Lauris Edmund

🌾 What Grass is That?

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Grass identification, Botany, N. C. Lambrechtsen

🌾 Edible Tree Nuts in New Zealand

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Tree nuts, Gardening, P. B. Bull, D. Jackson, T. Bedford

🎓 The Maori School of Learning

🎓 Education, Culture & Science
Maori learning, Whare Wananga, Elsdon Best