THE YEAR BOOK.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4645, 7 January 1924, Page 3

THE YEAR BOOK.

INTERESTING NEW FEATURES. The 1924 number of the Year Book of New Zealand is to hand from the Government statistician, Mr Malcolm Fraser. While on the same general lines as the 1923 number, it is considerably larger, partly owing to the inclusion of. new matter’ and the extension of existing sections; and partly through the reprinting of certain articles —five in number —which have been reproduced in the present issue relative to rivers, lakes, geology, Hora, and fauna of New Zealand, and are in each case the work of recognised authorities on the respective subjects. The list of mountains has bemi revised and largely extended by Mr T. A. Fletcher, secretary of the New Zealand Alpine Culb, and an article on seismology has also been considerably extended by the Govern-' meet seismologist (Dr. C. E. Adams). The population seetiorr has been entirely rewritten, and contains much new matter. The morbidity section is presented in a much improved form, and bankruptcy now forms :> separate section. In the trade section is a new review, “The Trade of Ports,” including interesting matter connected with the recently inaugurated system of port tonnage statistics. Other interesting items are the. extension of the water power section, the inclusion of informative matterrelating to the schemes of advances. There arc also short and instructive articles on the Main Highways Act and the Wellington municipal milk supply.