New Zealand
editNew Zealand's DSIR was formed in 1926 with Ernest Marsden appointed as Secretary. It operated as a Government department for 66 years until dissolution in 1992 with its institutes reorganised to form the commercially-based state-owned Crown Research Institutes.
The Head Office of DSIR was in Wellington. The science activities were carried out by many semi-autonomous Divisions located in diverse sites, including:
- Antarctic Division in Christchurch was formed in 1959 at the conclusion of the International Geophysical Year. It operated the Vanda Station - an Antarctic research base.
- Auckland Industrial Development Division (AIDD), Christchurch Industrial Development Division (CIDD), the Physics and Engineering Laboratory (PEL) and Industrial Processing Division (IPD) at Gracefield merged in 1990 to become DSIR Industrial Development from which devolved Industrial Research Limited.
- The Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, now GNS Science.
- Landcare Research New Zealand Limited (formerly known as Soil Bureau).
- HortResearch.
The history of New Zealand's DSIR is described in the following books:
- DSIR's First Fifty Years, J. D. Atkinson, New Zealand DSIR Information Series 115 1976, 220 pages, ISSN 0077-9636
- DSIR - Making Science Work for New Zealand, Ross Galbreath, Victoria University Press 1998, 299 pages, ISBN 0 86473 354 2