G. DE S. BAYLIS, Fields Instructor with the Department of Agriculture, carried out the first experiment on pakihi soils in Golden Bay at Onekaka in 1910 and established pasture following cultivation. In 1912. Baylis stated, "The possibilities of this pakihi land have already been demonstrated and the rightly directed energy of the settlers is the one thing now needed to convert these barren lands into good pastures and farm lands". The settlers have converted small areas into reasonable pasture during intervening years. Further research into the requirements of these soils has been carried out by the Cawthron Institute.
