Runholder of Canterbury. `In 1864, Cornishman John Grigg bought up about 800 ha of "impassable swamp" extending from the Ashburton River to the Hinds, and 11 km inland from the coast. Over the years Grigg converted this peat, silt and clay into productive farm, the celebrated "Longbeach Station". Grigg was one of the pioneers of the frozen meat export industry in NZ.' (From Wises New Zealand Guide; a gazeteer of New Zealand, 1987, under the place name heading Longbeach. See also `An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand' Vol 1, p 882-883, and the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, (1993) Vol 2). There is a statue of John Grigg in Baring Square, Ashburton. Father of John Charles Nattle Grigg.
Grigg, John, 1828?-1901
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Hands, Alfred Watson, 1849-1927 :Private chapel in the grounds of John Grigg Esq., Long...
Date: 1884
From: Hands, Alfred Watson, 1849-1927 :[Scenes in New Zealand] 1865, 1881, 1887
By: Hands, Alfred Watson (Rev), 1849-1927
Reference: A-254-009
Description: A small wooden chapel with a belfry and lancet windows in Gothic Revival style, a grave and a garden outside, with a cabbage tree and bush beyond Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 245 mm Provenance: Donation; Mrs M S G MacLeod, Tunbridge Wells, 12 August 1977
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Correspondence
Date: Oct-Dec 1872
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-067
Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name below; also includes letter from J or T [?] Strauts, Christchurch, seeking employment; one from Henry [?] Orbell, Dunedin, also seeking employment; and letter from A [?] Cotton, Lake Coleridge. Also booklet of applications for appointments listing F H Hall, Mangawai, F A Pulleine, Grahamstown, Captain William Baldwin, Geo Leslie Lee, Rangiora, Dr Buchanan, Dunedin, C Hunter Brown, Nelson, I or J H Beale, Grafton Road, Auckland, S S Field, Templeton, Canterbury and I or J Aylmer, Ross, Westland. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Correspondence
Date: Mar 1888
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-143
Description: Includes several letters of condolence following the death of the Halls' daughter, Mary Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Correspondence
Date: Jun 1892
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-186
Description: Correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece level list available.
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Correspondence
Date: Jan-May 1882
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-103
Description: Most correspondents identified and entered under Name below; also includes letter from Mrs [?] M C Ramage, Moberley Road, Upper Norwood, to Miss Norrie; and biographical piece by Hall, probably for his knighthood Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Ashburton, general view looking down East Street - Photograph taken by A W H
Date: [between 1910s and 1920s]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
By: Hopkins, Alfred Walter, 1882-1969
Reference: 1/2-000886-G
Description: General view of Ashburton, looking down East Street. Baring Square with two statues, one of John Grigg (1828?-1901), runs along East Street in the left foreground, and the business premises of Baker and Brown (coachbuilders at 164 Havelock Street), are visible behind the park. Photograph taken by A W H, probably Alfred W Hopkins, bookseller and stationer at 55 East Street, Ashburton Source of descriptive information - Photographer identified as Alfred W Hopkins from image at 1/2-000883 and from Wise's Post Office Directory between 1910s and 1920s Source of descriptive information - Note on back of file print reads "Looking down East Street. Baring Square with statue of John Grigg." [Information given by] R. Lambrechtsen, Aug 2002. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Ashburton Protd A W H [No] 374b Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
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Hack yard at Longbeach Station, Canterbury - Photograph taken by J Grigg
Date: [189-?]
From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
Reference: MNZ-0392-1/4-F
Description: Hack yard at Longbeach Station, Canterbury, photographed circa 1890s by J Grigg, probably John Grigg, 1828?-1901. Publication note - Published in Making New Zealand (Wellington [N.Z.] : New Zealand Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1940) Vol 1, No 9, p 30 Source of descriptive information - File print, MNZ copyright register, MNZ negative register Inscriptions: From original item, bottom left: "Hack yard, Longridge - J Grigg" Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Provenance: Copy of a photograph in the Wheeler album, General Assembly Library, for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication `Making New Zealand' (1939-40).