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Bruce Miller (soil scientist)

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Miller was a member of the Wairarapa Catchment Board from 1973 to 1982, and served on the Water Resources Council between 1978 and 1982. He was an elder of the Ngaio Union Church from 1957, and a board member of Presbyterian Support Services from 1988 to 1991. He was also a member of the advisory
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in Rome. He served on the council of the New Zealand Society of Soil Science from 1953 to 1974, and was president of the organisation from 1966 to 1968. He was a council member of the International Society of Soil Science in 1974, and was a Fellow of the
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from 1945, rising to become a section leader in 1971, and director in 1973. He later served as chief director of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and was appointed an
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on 19 October 1922, Miller was the son of Ronald Miller, a Presbyterian minister, and Jessie Miller (née McGregor). He was educated at
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On 26 February 1955, Miller married Nina Rae McLaughlin, and the couple went on to have four children.
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on 23 January 2022, at the age of 99. His wife, Rae Miller, died a few months later, on 16 June 2022.
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People associated with Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand)
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committee of the Stout Trust, a philanthropic charitable trust, from 1983.
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New Zealand soil scientist and science administrator (1922–2022)
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From 1968 to 1969, Miller was an André Meyer Fellow at the
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New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire
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degree in 1949. He undertook postgraduate study at the
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People educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School
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Index

OBE
Kaikōura
Waikanae
Soil Bureau
OBE
Soil Bureau
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Kaikōura
Manaia District High School
Palmerston North Boys' High School
University of Otago
Master of Science
Victoria University College
Bachelor of Arts
Royal Agricultural College
Soil Bureau
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
1984 New Year Honours
New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal
Food and Agriculture Organization
New Zealand Institute of Chemistry
Royal Society Te Apārangi
Waikanae






Traue, J. E.

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