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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.
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The environmental conditions that control soil formation tend also to govern the kinds of land use. Thus a close relationship between soils and land use arises, not only from the characteristics inherent in the soils themselves, but also from the joint environmental factors, such as climate or topography.