Education
University of Auckland.
University of Auckland.
Poole started at the New Zealand State Forest Service 1926, then to Auckland University College on a scholarship. After various jobs during the Great Depression, he joined the Botany Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1937. He enlisted in 1940, and spent the war at the Scientific Liaison Office in London.
After the war he worked for the British zone in Germany gaining valuable experience.
In 1947 he was appointed Assistant Director of the Botany Division of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. In 1951 he was appointed Assistant Director of the New Zealand Forest Service and rose to Director-General, retiring in 1971. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1962.
He died in Wellington in 2008.
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