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New 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:

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