Living and Working in New Zealand: How to Build a New Life in New Zealand (How to): How to Build a New Life in New Zealand (How to) |
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Joy Muirhead
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Pages: 354 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1857039122
Pub: How To Books Ltd
Pub date: 2003-12-19
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 68605
Reader Reviews:
Out of date and lots of bumpf (201/203 people found this helpful)
After a trip to NZ last month I purchased this book and another of a same title (ISBN: 1901130762) as I have the serious intention of emigrating.
I was very disappointed with this book for two reasons.
1. The book is full of copies of immigration/work permit, etc. forms. Also there are number of illustrations of newspaper ads e.g. 'here is what a jod ad looks like in NZ'. These illustrations seemed to be there to add thickness to the book.
2. My major disappointment was that a lot of the information was years out of date. Although the book says that this was revised for 2004 a lot of the detail in the book was out of date based on my trip, some I belive has not been updated since its first publication in 1994. The useful contacts section at the back had been updated and conflicted the 'older' contact details in the body the book
Examples: using education system terminology that was changed 4 years ago, quoting a city paper that has been out of print for some time. qutoing the summer high for Christchurch as 25C yet when was there it was 35C+ and the locals told me this was normal.
The style is also very 'amateur'.
Frankly I get the feeling that the author threw this together at a whim and keeps is barely current by updating the reference list in the back.
I have purchased Living and Working in New Zealand
Jim Watson (Illustrator) ISBN: 1901130762 instead (far superior) and thrown this one in the bin. Waste of £12.99
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