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Kōrero: Soil investigation

‘New Zealand has soil!’

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‘New Zealand has soil!’

The importance of New Zealand’s high-quality soils to farming is often overlooked. The DSIR Soil Bureau produced this poster in 1980 to mark its golden jubilee – at a time when there was an effort to increase oil exploration in New Zealand because of soaring overseas oil prices.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Landcare Research – Manaaki Whenua

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Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

P. J. Tonkin, Soil investigation – Golden age of soil survey: 1951–1985, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/14195/new-zealand-has-soil (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā P. J. Tonkin, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.