PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Shannon News, 11 April 1922, Page 3

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

NEW ZEALAND OFFICIAL YEAR BOOK. From the Government statistician comes a copy of the Official Year Book for the year 1921-22. The thirtieth of the series, it makes—its appearance in a new and larger size of page that not only economises in space but lends' dignity to the general aspect. The claim is made that the volume makes “a decided advance towards the attainment of the ideal set up some years ago, but kept in abeyance through war and post-war conditions of making the Year Book a full and authoritative book of reference on all branches of the Dominion’s activities and economic characteristics and progress.” A glance through these ample pages fully justifies this claim. It consists of 36 sections and 616 pages, and in an Easily-comprehended form, by table, graph and letterpress, conveys a mass of co-ordinated facts about the Dominion’s industrial and social life. Opening with an excellent descriptive section, there follow divisions devoted to history, constitution and administration, official life, population, births, deaths and marriages, public health, education, justice, defence, external trade, shipping, railways, postal and telegraph, land tenure and settlement, agricultural and pastoral production, forestry, fisheries, mining, manufacture, water power, public finance, State aid to settlers, etc., pensions and superannuation, valuation of land, banking, insurance, friendly societies, building societies mortgages, wealth and incomes, industrial disputes, prices and general. The arrangement, analysis and presentation of the mass of information contained in the Book is very creditable to the State Statistician’s office, and the publication, at the price of 7/6, will be. found invaluable to all who take an interest in their country’s progress. Apart from its statistical interest it will be found admirable as a “dipping book’ for odd moments.