Jollie River: Nelson, a tributary of the Tasman River. Named by Julius
von Haast after his friend Edward Jollie, surveyor, and Secretary for Public Works in Canterbury
Provincial Council.
Maori name: Te Awaure: lit. te: the; awa: river; ure: male.
Jollies Pass: Marlborough, between the Hanmer Plain and the Acheron River. Named by Edward Jollie, who led a party of men to drive a flock of 1,800 sheep to Canterbury in 1852. In Jollie's own words he "went ahead ascending a range to the right, and going along it for about four miles, arrived at a point where I could see, through an opening in the snowy hills, the yellow grassy hills of the Hanmer Plain". Subsequently the pass was crossed. Jollie's companions were his partner Edward James Lee, John Berry and a shepherd called Simpson. They were later joined by a traveller, Percival. In Molesworth L.W. McCaskill writes: "It is regrettable that Jollie and Percival should be commemorated by the naming of a pass (2,756 feet) and a mountain (5,340 feet), each with a stream in addition, while Lee's name is not attached to any geographical feature. It may be noted however, that his name is perpetuated in Leesfield and Leeston.