He arrived in Lyttelton on August 12, 1849, and three days later set to work on the survey of that town. On the completion of this task, he started, in October, 1849, to prepare a similar survey for the proposed town of Sumner. There is an old map still extant at the Land Office, Christchurch, prepared by him in November, 1849, and signed by Captain Thomas, on which are recorded the names proposed to be given to the streets of that town, but Sumner was afterwards abandoned, and the land thrown open for rural selection.
At the end of the year, Mr. Jollie was sent to the plains to survey the capital city, Christchurch. He took the place of another surveyor, a Mr. Scroggs, who was resigning from the service of the Association to return to England. “I lived in Scroggs’ grass house at ‘The Bricks,’ and the six men who were with me, in a weatherboard hut close by. The day was, of course, spent in work, and in the evening I had eel-fishing, pig-hunting, or quail-shooting in the neighbourhood. Quails were plentiful, and I shot many on what is now the site of Christchurch. My nearest neighbours were Cass, who had a house at Riccarton Bush, and the two Deanses, who had sheep and cattle, and a good house and garden at Riccarton. There were, in fact, no other people on the plains.”
“The Bricks” was a landing place on the south bank of the Avon, at a point close to the present Barbadoes Street bridge, opposite the Star and Garter Hotel. When the Deans brothers were establishing the first permanent settlement upon the plains, as described later, they conveyed their goods up the Avon in a whaleboat. A cargo of bricks was brought as far as possible by that means, but had to be unloaded when shallow water was reached. The spot chosen for the landing became known as “The Bricks,” Afterwards a small wooden wharf was constructed there, and was used by the pioneer settlers when they were transporting
