Reminiscences of the New Zealand Geological Survey

Abstract

Abstract When I joined the Geological Survey in May 1920, it was a small organisation with a staff of seven geologists, a draughtsman and a clerk. They were: P. G. Morgan, Director; J. Henderson, Mining Geologist; M. Ongley, H. T. Ferrar, Geologists; L. I. Grange, E. O. Macpherson, and J. Marwick, Assistant Geologists; H. E. Harris, draughtsman; and F. Fulton-Wood, clerk. Ferrar, Grange and Macpherson had only recently been appointed, after the First World War. The office was at 38 Wellington Terrace, in an old wooden house set back about 40 ft from the street with a sloping lawn in front. It was quite a good place to work in, with reasonable space at the time, relatively quiet for the middle of a city, only a block to the old Dominion Museum, and handy to Lambton Railway Station for us Lower Hutt dwellers. Also, importantly, it was close to the Lambton Quay-Willis Street window-shopping round during the lunch hour stroll.