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Drafting a soil map

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Drafting a soil map

By the 1950s some aspects of soil surveying had changed little since the beginning of the century. Here, Bill Rennie painstakingly drafts a map.

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P. J. Tonkin, Soil investigation – DSIR soil science: 1930–1950, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/14190/drafting-a-soil-map (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by P. J. Tonkin, published 1 March 2009.