New Zealand Soil Bureau
1 Artwork
In the early 1960s Government Architect F. G. F Sheppard and the Director of the New Zealand Soil Bureau commissioned E. Mervyn Taylor to create a mural for a new modernist building they were developing for the park-like grounds of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) agency at Gracefield, Lower Hutt.
See also:
- Ross Galbreath, 'Agricultural and horticultural research - DSIR research', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
- 'View south over the Lower Hutt Valley suburbs of Moera with Bell Park in foreground to Gracefield with the DSIR complex, to Seaview industrial area with fuel tanks and Wellington Harbour beyond' (1958, ref: WA-47246-F).
E. Mervyn Taylor, First Kumera Planting mural in situ, Taita Soil Bureau building, Lower Hutt. Image courtesy of New Zealand Society of Soil Science.
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