Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand)
DSIR logo in the 1980s and 1990s | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1926 |
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| Dissolved | 1 April 1992 |
| Superseding agency |
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| Employees | 2,000 in 1976 |
| Minister responsible | |
The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) was a government science agency in New Zealand, founded in 1926 and broken into Crown Research Institutes in 1992.