Harrison & Grierson (Firm)

Date: 1960 - 1969

By: Harrison & Grierson (Firm); Rotorua County (N.Z.). County Council; New Zealand. Parliamentary Library

Reference: MapColl-832.18gbbe/[ca.196-]/Acc.29845

Description: A set of Rotorua County Council District Planning maps, section one, Rotorua West, on 15 sheets. Maps include sheet 1 - Rotorua County showing rural boundary; 2 - Maori burial reserves (Urupa) and a thermal spring reserve; 3 - showing rural boundary, railway, main traffic routes; 4 - rural boundary, residential, commercial and industrial zones, reserves, proposed motorway, Pukerimu Urupa, Weri Weri Pa, Rakeikohanga Urupa, Pekehana Reserve, Otaimata Reserve, Orangi-Kahu Burial Reserve, Urupa and Puhirua Pa, church reserve and lakeshore reserve; 5 - zones, reserves, schools, railway; 6 - state forests, scenic reserves, 'Waiponokino Old Pa', Maori reserve, Tuakuraurekau burial ground (Urupa), Kotare Maori Pa, water supply and acclimatisation reserve; 7 - zones, sewerage reserve, cemetery reserve, gravel pit, Pukepatu burial reserve (Urupa), schools, proposed road changes; 8 - native school site, Lake Rotokawa, boundaries, main traffic routes; 9 - water supply reserve, boundaries, main traffic routes and recreation reserves; 10 - specified departures granted, native school site, main traffic routes and boundaries; 11 - boundaries near Lakes Okataina and Tarawera; 12 - main traffic routes along Ataimuri Rd; 13 - State Forest Whakarewarewa Plantation; 14 - State Forest, scenic reserve and Lakes Tikitapu and Rotokakahi ; and 15 - reserve for internal communication, Koripo burial reserve, scenic reserves, lakeshore reserves, roads and boundaries surrounding Lakes Okareka and Tarawera. The maps are bound in a card folder. Maps have own notations and scales. Other Titles - 1 Other Titles - one Quantity: 15 map(s) bound together. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scales differ, 74 x 75 cm.

Date: 1930s

By: Harrison & Grierson (Firm)

Reference: PA-Group-00868

Description: Photographs of topographical plans in Waikato Region, from Lake Taupo to Putaruru. Images include forestry and land blocks, a reference layout plan of where the planting blocks are situated, photographs of the land (with some areas already in young pines), a railway route design, a site plan of the proposed town at Tokoroa with two mills and a schedule of plantings as had already been made between 1924-1932. Also includes three photographs of display boards, each with eight photographs and captions. The glass negatives were produced in the 1930s by Harrison and Grierson and Paxton who were engaged by Perpetual Forests Ltd (later NZ Forest Products Ltd) to prepare topographic surveys for areas from Lake Taupo to Putaruru. Most of the images show plans of areas that Perpetual Forests appears to have been acquiring from 'The Australasian Forestry Bondholders Trust Company Ltd', along with some Crown land. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - The donor, Ian Grierson. (Staff see RefTracker 1020799) Quantity: 47 b&w copy negative(s) (Glass). Provenance: The items came to Mr Grierson as a result of office relocations. Transfers: Collection as a whole came in to the Photographic Archive and transfers were made from there. - - Transfers - To Cartographic, on appraisal: 'Chapman's map of the Waikato with Raglan, Kawhia and Tauranga districts 1866'. To Manuscripts : A letter of appreciation dated 9 April 1938 from the chairman of the Waikato Land Settlement Society Inc. to the 'Donors of the Nucleus Fund of the Society'..

Date: 1915

By: Harrison & Grierson (Firm); J H Bethune and Company Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.1291gbbd/1915/Acc.47191

Description: Cadastral map showing an area of land between an unamed road (now called The Strand), and Selwyn Terrace, and from the junction of Mechanics Road (now Selwyn Terrace) and Manukau Road on the left side of the map, to Kings Drive, on the right side of the map, in the suburb of Mechanic's Bay, Auckland. The land shown between the roads, The Strand and Selwyn Terrace, is divided into land blocks numbered from 1 to 16, and contains survey measurements, including width and length of each block and the number of perches per block. Survey measurements are given along the length of Selwyn Terrace and some are provided in The Strand. Additional information identifies areas that are not fenced, areas with new palling fences, the location of the original high water mark, Marston and Fox Streets and an area containing the name S Parker Railway Dept. Blk. VIII. Rangitoto S.D. is written above the new road area, now The Strand. Measurements relating to the area of land already under the Land Tranfer Act and land to be brought under the Act is written on the right side of the map. The words, City of Auckland, is written further down the map and near it, is the stamped signature of "Chas. K. Grierson Lic.d Surveyor". At the botton right hand corner of the map is the number 10790, written in pencil, the letters OM, written in pencil and the number 4611, written in blue ink. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Diazo print on paper, wash, coloured, scale 1:792, 49.5 x 50.5 cm.

By: Harrison & Grierson (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-832.11a/1916/Acc.54572

Description: Hand drawn plan of Subdivision of Church Mission Property Paihia by Harrison and Grierson, 1916. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on heavy paper with linen backing, hand coloured

Date: [1994]

From: Simpson, Mīria, 1922-2002: Collection

Reference: 2002-379-051

Description: Inward and outward correspondence; identified correspondents entered under Name below. Notes, drafts, corrections to Maori translations, census material, kaunihera kaumatua mailing list and other papers. Quantity: 1 folder(s).