I mua he kaipāmu miraka ki Hikutaia (e pāmu tonu ana tana whānau), i mahi a Basil Morrison i roto i te kāwanatanga ā-rohe mai i te Hānuere o te tau 1971. Ko ia te hea o te Ōhinemuri County Council mai i te tau 1983 tae noa ki te tau 1989, ā, i taua wā ko ia te koromatua tuatahi o te Kaunihera ā-Rohe o Hauraki. I tāoki a Mr Morrison i te koromatuatanga i te tau 2004. I tū ia ki te Kaunihera ā-Takiwā o Waikato mai i te tau 2004 ki te 2007, ā, ko ia te perehitini o Te Kāwanatanga ā-Rohe i Aotearoa mai i te tau 2000 ki te tau 2008. Ināianei, ko Mr Morrison te hea o te Local Government Superannuation Board, he Kaikōmihana o te New Zealand Freshwater, he Kaiwhakahaere o te Civic Assurance and Civic Property Pool, me te Honorary Consul of Uganda i Aotearoa. Ko ia te kaikōmihana nohoanga motuhake i raro i te Resource Management Act 1991 mō te Kaunihera o Tāmakimakaurau me te Kaunihera ā-Rohe o Thames Coromandel. I kopoua a Mr Morrison ki te Taraipiunara i te tau 2008.