WORK ON NEW ZEALAND.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1556, 27 September 1912, Page 3

WORK ON NEW ZEALAND.

—t SHORTLY TO BE COMPILED. An extremely comprehensive work or New Zealand is about to bo compiled bj the Foreign and Colonial Compiling anc Publishing Company, of 27 Pilgrim Street London, which is at present represents in - Wellington- by its chief'director oi operations, Mr. Somerset Wayne, F.IJ.G.S. who has already directed the compilatioi of -several works of reference of 13ritisl; Oversea Dominions. Tho work' on Nen Zealand, which is to bo edited _ by Mr Holdness Gait, will ii.ice tho history nl Wcw Zealand from tho earliest day's oi .English settlement to tho present, and is to deal, according to Jlr. Plaync, witli every phase of industrial and commercial life, specialising in the primary produets and works arising therefrom, th< natural resources of tho country, commercial and aesthetic. Each district wili be also treated separately, its history, progress, and particular features and businesses described. The work will bo frcclv illustrated in tho best style, and will contain a series of special articles'writteu by , fully-qiinlified specialists. Mr. 'Play no's-book oil Cape' Colony, is sued 'early, iu :.tho present year, is '# comprehensive r and irifdhnativo hand-book. It is printed on '.best of paper, artistically illustrated, and bound, handsninclj in full morocco ..or cloth. The", forme": were published at "£o, and the latter al .£1 55., which is all indication of the quality of the publication. As an indication of tho subjects which will bu dealt will] in the new book on tho Dominion, wt quote a few of those embodied in the Cape Colony publication, viz., "Ostriches," bv Oscar Evans; "Fniit Culture," by P. K. Malleson; "Viticulture." by Professor P. D. Hahn; "Food Plants," by P. Meyer; "Literature Eelatius fo tho Cape' Province," by Professor P. 13. Lewis, of Koyal Colonial Institute j "Sheep," by J. W. Kiddell- (now in Australia, who will write on the same subject in Jiew Zealand), also articles on the railways, defence, climate, sport, ecclesiastical and educational matters. Mr. Somerset Playne lunchcd on Tuesday with I(is Excellency the Governor, who manifested a warm interest in tho project.' . '