BOOK NOTICE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4785, 28 July 1894, Page 3

BOOK NOTICE.

WtMingion, Hawke's Bay and Taranth Directory iov 1894-5. Edited by John Stone, junr. (Stone, Son, and Co.), Dunedin,

This useful volume, which lias reached its fourth year of publication, presents a somewht more bulky uppcaranco than its predecessor, there being 680 pages of reading matter, or eighty pages in excess of the last issue, When it is remembered jtjid.New Zealanders, or onethird ojßhcm, are credited with being migratory once a year, the necessity for a yearly directory must be evident, Not only arc there numerous changes required in the directory proper, but tho supplementary pages devoted to statistical, legal, Commercial, and other information always dqmarid thorough'revision. The recent changes in the method of procedure iu magistrates' courts aro thus noted, as are also certain alterations in municipal government—all information presented in the work being up to date. $8 the MUfles, and addresses hero giveji are tlio result of a house-to-house visitation their qcc-ipcy may be regarded as more than an assumption, and after all, it is tho reliability of this section which stamps a yalue upon the work, Like the Yoiunio it jssuporaedhijj, the present contains a well exeoutod map ot WolHngton and suburbs divided into half-milo squares, and containing at the foot reference to the principal streets, roads, churches, and public buildings and institutions. This as well as the map of New Zealand (also g_iven) has received tho latest correction and revision. The section designated tlio 'NowZcalaud Annual' (with which renders pfthoDuucdinDircctorynrefamiliar) (ion'taiiiß," besides a comprehensive almanac, much valuable information —legal, commercial, and miscellaneous—almost indispensable for reference in any emorgoncy. Tho typography of the book is excellent, and ■ the binding is ■ also a most creditable specimen of workmanship.