Excerpt from The Pacific Geography (Physical, Political, and Commercial): Standard III.; Specially Written to Meet the Requirements of the New Zealand Syllabus of Instruction This revised edition of the pacific geographies is designed to provide a complete course of instruction in Physical, Mathematical, Political, and Commercial Geography for each of the Standards of the Middle and Senior Divisions, as prescribed by the New Zealand Syllabus. The text-book is intended merely to supplement and not to replace class instruction by the teacher. Although the facts are stated didactically in the text, the pupils should not be introduced to them directly in this form. They should be led to make observa tions and to carry out experiments that will enable them to discover the facts for themselves; then and not till then should they be directed to study the summary of the facts as set out in the text. The information provided is considerably greater than Standard III. Children can reasonably be expected to master. It is left to the discretion of the teacher to make a selection of the subject matter for his scholars to study. In particular a large number of towns have been given on pages 7 6-87, with the sole object of affording the teacher as wide a choice as possible in his selection of those he may deem most suitable or most applicable to the conditions (indus tries, etc.) of his particular school or district. Thus Westland children should be expected to know more about Westland than about Otago, Auckland, or the other Provinces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.