ENCYCLOPEDIA ON N.Z.

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30395, 20 March 1964, Page 12

ENCYCLOPEDIA ON N.Z.

Cost Likely To Be lOgns

The New Zealand Encyclopedia would probably cost 10 guineas, not seven as forecast, but would probably contain nearer 3000 pages instead of the originally-estimated 2000 to 2250, said the administrative officer of the Government Printing Office (Mr G. R. A. Norton) at Hanmer Springs yesterday. He was addressing the forty-third annual conference of the Associated Booksellers of New Zealand.

Mr Norton said the encyclopedia would probably have to be in three volumes and was hoped to be available to the New Zealand public at the end of next year, he said. Work had been proceeding for two years. “I can say the setting of the job is just about completed—about 95 per cent,” he said. ‘ Mr Norton said a new Government Atlas, completely revised and almost wholly rewritten and with redrawn maps, would be out in 1966. “It should be picked up with some gusto, as the last job did,” he said. A Government catalogue—a list of publications held—would be out within the next three or four months, said Mr Norton. Some sections had already been issued.