RECENT GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
| Date | 01 June 1954 |
| Published date | 01 June 1954 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1954.tb01314.x |
RECENT GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
THE
following official publications issued
by H.M.S.O. are of particular interest to
those engaged in,
or
studying, public
administration. The documents are avail-
able for reference in the Library of the
Institute.
British Imperial Calendar and Civil Service
List, 1954. pp. xiv, 1199. 17s. 6d.
Invaluable for all interested in knowing
who’s who in all government depart-
ments, with salaries attached to each
office.
Board of Trade.
The Commonwealth and the sterling
area
:
73rd statistical abstract, 1949--52.
pp. 276.
(typescript)
15s. Total trade.;
direction by currency areas of imports
and exports; commodity pattern of
exports and imports, and values
;
.pro-
duction, consumption
and
world prices
;
population figures.
Alliance for peace; the first five years
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organise-
tion. pp. 30. Illus., charts. 1954. 2s
Annual abstract of statistics, No. 90.
1953. pp. xii, 317. 21s. Important
new tables in this issue include composi-
tion of dwellings occupied by private
households; cost of school meals;
retail establishment
;
bank advances
and capital issues; size of manu-
facturing
firms
and number of their
employees.
Economic trends, No.
1.
November,
1953. Monthly. 2s. Charts and key
statistics relating to manpower, pro-
duction, raw materials, external trade
and balance
of
payments, finance,
prices, earnings and personal expendi-
ture in the United Kingdom. A
pictorial edition of the
“
Monthly digest
statistics.”
Monthly digest of statistics, Nos. 94-99
October, 1953-March, 1954. 4s. 6d.
Central Transport Consultative Com-
mittee for Great Britain.
Annual report for the year ended
31st December, 1953. H.C. 104.
pp. 14. 6d.
Central Office of Information.
Central Statistical Office.
Civil Service Commissioners.
Report for the reconstruction period
1945-52 (86th report). pp. 64. 1954. 2s.
Annual report on the East Africa High
Commission, 1952. pp. 78.
8
illus.,
map. 1953. 3s. 6d.
Corona, December, 1953-April, 1954.
1s. 6d. December issue contains a
timely article on Bechuanaland, by a
former Resident Commissioner.
Colonial
No.
302. Despatches on the
Gold Coast Government’s proposals
for constitutional reform exchanged
between the Secretary of State for the
Colonies and
H.E.
the Governor,
August, 1953 to April, 1954. pp. 15. 6d.
Digest of colonial statistics, Nos. 11-12.
November-December, 1954, January-
February, 1954.
5s.
bi-monthly.
Journal of African administration, April,
1954. 2s. 6d. Contains articles on land
tenure, local authority police forces in
Gold Coast,
slum
clearance in Khar-
toum, and training for local government
in N. Nigeria.
The national income of Nigeria 1950-51.
Colonial research studies No. 11.
pp. vii, 123. Bibliog. 6 pp. 1953.
8s.
6d.
An
important report by
A.
R.
Prest and
I.
G.
Steward, offering conclusions of
a
wide and general nature indispensable
as a background to a large number of
problems of economic administration in
Nigeria.
Report by the resumed conference on
the Nigerian Constitution, Lagos. Jan-
uary-February, 1954. Cmd. 9059. pp.
80.
2s. 6d.
Report
. . .
on the administration
of
the Cameroons under United Kingdom
Trusteeship for the year 1952. Colonial
no. 299. pp. xii, 255. Illus.,
3
maps
(in pocket). 1954. 12s. 6d.
Report to the Secretary
of
State for
the Colonies by the parliamentary dele-
gation to Kenya, January, 1954. Cmd.
9081. pp. 22. 9d.
Togoland under United Kingdom
trusteeship
:
report for the year 1952.
Colonial no. 296. pp. x, 278. 24 illus.,
3
maps, bibliog. 1953. 12s. 6d.
Colonial Office.
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