The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. George Renwick Herriot
Mr. George Renwick Herriot
, who has been engineer of the Fairdown dredge since August, 1904. was born in Glasgow, where he was educated at St. John's School, Graeme Street. He served an apprenticeship to a weighing machine maker in his native city, and was also for three years under Messrs Muir and Caldwell, engineers. Mr Herriot landed in Brisbane, Australia, in 1887, and worked for two years under the Harbours and Rivers Department. He came to New
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Zealand in 1897, and was, successively, engineer of the Jutland Flat dredge, Waipori, the Molyneux Hydraulic
dredge, the Carrick dredge, at the Nevis, the Grand Junction dredge, and a dredge at the Waimumu, before removing to Waikaia, in 1904.