New Zealand Insurance Company Ltd.

Date: [ca 1876-1898]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1036

Description: Most of the folder relates to R D D Maclean and includes correspondence relating to business, farming, local affairs, membership, a sample of washed wool, a long series of letters to Maclean in Scotland from Alex Campbell, The Cottage, describing conditions, including pests and weather (1878), the purchase of a Clydesdale horse, Apollo, and other matters (identified persons entered under Name) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: [1840-1904]

From: Gore family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9867-3

Description: Comprises NZ Insurance Co fire policies for R B Gore (1881, 1882); receipt to Mary Gore re R B Gore's grave (1903); memo re encroachment, land belonging to R B Gore, Aurora Tce, Wellington (1897); embarkation order for Gore and Creaghe on the `Black Eagle' (1861); baptism certificate for R B Gore (1840); R B Gore's certificate of qualification (1858); Wellington City Council receipt and agreement re burial right (1904) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1930

By: Cheng, Seah Neo, active 1930

Reference: MS-Papers-5138

Description: Contains Seah Neo Cheng's New Zealand Insurance Company policy for the insurance of a shop and lodging house in Miri Bazaar, Sarawak, dated 13 Jan 1930. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter Provenance: Purchased by State Library of Victoria at a auction at Phillips, London, as part of a lot of material. Forwarded to the Alexander Turnbull Library as it was not something the State Library of Victoria wanted to keep.

Date: [1904-1947]

From: Fairburn, Arthur Rex Dugard, 1904-1957 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1128-069

Description: Includes letters from Cong, one of Fairburn's children; case of assault against Fairburn, Norfolk Island, against Charles Edward Champion; employment references; and papers relating to Fairburn's national service with the 1st District Composite Coy, NZASC, Gloucester Park Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [Early 1880s?]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912

Reference: PA1-q-153

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers, circa early 1880s. Images include several Maori groups, Maori kainga, meeting houses, carving; a large number of views of mud pools, geysers, hot springs, and in particular views of the Pink and White Terraces before the Tarawera eruption in 1886. Other views show areas of the South Island, including Dunedin City, Oamaru, Christchurch; and the North island including Auckland, Thames District (a number showing aspects of gold mining in the area). The last photograph, of the R.M.S.S. Zealandia was taken by Taber Photo, San Francisco. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey blue cover, black corners and spine edged with gold; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1873

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-106-f-054-1

Description: View of the building with pedestrians and horse and carriage on the street outside. Artist/engraver unknown Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 62, 1873, p 201 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 150 x 110 mm

Date: [Between 1870s and 1880s]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.

Reference: Pa1-o-389

Description: Early photographs of New Zealand, mostly taken by unidentified photographers. One collage of Union Steam Ship Company ships, ship captains and the head office building in Dunedin was photographed and issued by David Alexander De Maus. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album cover pink and white pattern with gold tracery, red spine; 24.0 x 32.5 cm

Date: Between 1950 and 1959

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Gummer & Ford (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0811-02-09

Description: The New Zealand Insurance Company building, Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North (architects: Gummer & Ford) which was constructed during the 1950s. Image taken by an unidentified photographer in the 1950s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1883 - 1889 - 1986

By: Carabain, Jacques, 1834-1933; Aotea Centre (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: D-019-034-a

Description: Shows view of Queen Street, Auckland, from corner of Fort Street, with Victoria Arcade (demolished 1978) on left, and The New Zealand Insurance Company building with clock tower on right. In the left foreground is A. B. Donald's sailmaking business, and Anderson's Imperial Hotel. Partington's Mill can be seen on the distant horizon. Accompanied by descriptive text sheet. From a limited edition of 250 reproductions. Painted from an 1883 photograph by George Valentine. Inscriptions: Original signed and dated: Auckland 20 december 1889, J. Carabain. It is not known when Carabain visited New Zealand. Probably it was as a brief stopover between Melbourne and San Francisco, in about 1885. While there, he possibly purchased a copy of George Valentine's photograph from Chapman's booksellers in Vulcan Lane. From this photograph, he painted the original oil painting finishing it in his Brussels studio in 1889. Even by about 1885, when Carabain probably visited, the scene was not as it had been when Valentine took the photograph in 1883. Donald's shipchandlers had already been replaced by an imposing neoclassical facade, and the Victoria Arcade had a verandah. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 552 x 716 mm, on sheet 603 x 765 mm.

Date: ca 1880s-1940s

By: Ely, Dunstan, active 1949

Reference: PAColl-4351

Description: Copy prints made by Dunstan Ely of Auckland ca 1880s, particularly views in the Albert Park area and including a view over open land to Rangitoto. Also included is a street scene of possibly Queen Street ca 1880s with Darby's US Dining Rooms, M Levy & Co, Hull Brothers, Shera Brothers and the New Zealand Insurance Company premises all visible; and a street scene of Wellesley Street ca 1940 with the State Advances Corporation building on the left and looking up towards the public library. Original photographer unidentified. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1936 - 1937

From: [New Zealand ephemera of quarto size, relating to insurance companies, insurance cover, insuring of property, travel and accident insurance]

Reference: Eph-B-INSURANCE-1936-01

Description: Insurance policy document made out for Ronald Lindsay Weir, a solicitor of Maryborough, insuring him against personal accident while driving a motor vehicle, for the sum of five hundred pounds. At top centre is the portrait image of Tawhiao. At top right are two Queensland impressed duty stamps, rubber-stamped in red. At the top is stuck an extra clause for a special condition - the insurance is void if the driver is conveying paying passengers. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on paper, 420 x 265 mm.

Date: 1970 - 1985

From: Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers

Reference: Eph-C-SMITH-Racial

Description: Includes: 1970: I'm against the tour; statements by New Zealanders. I'm against the 1970 All Black Tour of South Africa because ... [Booklet. 1970] 1973: Insuring apartheid; the case for disengagement from South Africa of the South British Insurance Co and the NZ Insurance Co. Published by the National Anti-Apartheid Committee, Box 9154 Courtenay Place, Wellington [Pamphlet. 1973]. 1977?: HART. New Zealand Softball Assoication condones racist sport. Demonstration to oppose racist softball tour. Airport Terminal Building, Wellington, Wednesday 26th January 6 pm [Flyer. 1977?] (2 copies) 1982: C.O.S.T. calendar 1982 (showing 12 photographs of protests in Wellington (one Palmerston North) in 1981, against the Springbok tour. Photographers include Mark Hantler, Jonathan Taylor, Gwenda Pearson, Stephen A'Court, Brian Davis, Gyles Beckford, Christine Laven, Paul Hambleton, Roger Barton)) 1985: June 28, No Tour Friday. Fight apartheid in South Africa; fight racism in Aotearoa. Assemble Cenotaph 7 pm. National day of conscience. Tell the government, the rugby union and the All Blacks ... Reverse the Decision! Published by [HART] Box 9204, Wellington, [Poster. 1985] (2 copies) 1985: "No Tour '85". PLEASE DONT GO [Poster. 1985] Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 calendar. Physical Description: Screenprints, offset prints and photocopies, sizes varying up to 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated as part of the estate of Ron and Carmen Smith, Wellington, in 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2031, Photographic Archive, Oral History Archive..

Date: 1977-1978

By: Communist Party of New Zealand. Auckland District Committee

Reference: Eph-B-MAORI-1977/1978

Description: Includes: 1977: Communist Party of New Zealand. Auckland District. A call to all workers. April 1977. Flier A matou korero [Humorous story used in Maori language course at Wellington Polytechnic. 1977] Te Huihuinga nui o nga Wahine Maori. Te Puke o Tara, Otara, 4-6 November 1977. Flier / registration form The Maori seats are privileged - why keep them filled. Abolish the four Maori seats; have a true democracy. Margaret Grey-Gellen + supporters, PO Box 457, Wellington Central [1977]. Green flier National Maori Language Day. 13-14 September [1977]. Programme / flier Pacific and Maori Affairs seminar, [Titirangi], 30-31 July [1977]. Programme / flier Stop Maori land grab! [re Ngatihine Block. 27 October 1977] Te Hapua; Tu Kotahi 26 August 1977. Te Hiku o te Ika. Flier 1978: ACORD. Public enquiry into Social Welfare homes. Oliver Sutherland, for Auckland Committee on Racism and Discrimination, 4 June 1978. Flier Learning hui on Maori land: Bastion Point, Ngati Hine, Raglan. What are the issues? Functions Room, 17 July [1978] (2 copies - 1 white, 1 pink) Te Matakite o Aotearoa. Wellington Branch. Notice of meeting on 25 April 1978 Te Matakite o Poneke. Flier / subscription payment form, 28 April 1978 Te Matakite o Poneke. Blank collection pledge list [ to offer payment towards court costs for those arrested at Raglan in February 1978] New Zealand Insurance Company and Maori land [1978]. Flier Raglan Defence Committee. Public rally on the Raglan Maori Land Dispute. Can you trespass on your own land? Public rally, Garden Place Hamilton 7 April; Hamilton Courthouse picket, 10 April [1978] (3 copies) VUWSA National Affairs. Hear Eva Rickard on Raglan Maori land [1978]. Pink flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mimeographs, photocopies and offset prints, sizes varying below 350 mm.

Date: 1875-1882

By: Nelson, Moate and Company

Reference: MS-Papers-2955

Description: Invoices and insurance policies relating to the first shipment of Ceylon tea to New Zealand, imported by Nelson, Moate and Company Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-39-18

Description: View of the buildings in lower Rattray Street (includes NZ Insurance Company & Telegraph Office). Road repairs are being untaken in the middle distance. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers ca 1880s. From `New Zealand through the camera' series of photographs Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4687 - Rattray St, Dunedin; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 19.7 cm on mount 2.5 x 29 cm

Date: [ca 1874-1900]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1028

Description: The papers relate to R D D Maclean and include correspondence re business, shipping, financial concerns, donations, Road Board land tax assessment, land and property matters including correspondence re Wellington Hospital Convalescent Home, Hay Street, Oriental Bay; 16th Annual Report of Star Boating Club, 1881-1882; Maclean's winning of a gold medal for a wool exhibit in the Paris Universal Exhibition (London) (1889); accounts, receipts, stocks and shares and subscriptions; papers re recreational interests; plan of table for Imperial Federation League dinner; hymn sheet; letter from Toronto complimenting Maclean on his work toward jubilee services in NZ; shearing return 1890-1895 from J A Torr; correspondence between Donald McLean and Captain Maling of Government House (1877); visitor's safe receipt; Papers re Colonel Herrick and Robert Dobson, 1886-1887, and other papers. Identified persons entered under Name. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: 1950

From: [New Zealand ephemera of quarto size, relating to insurance companies, insurance cover, insuring of property, travel and accident insurance]

By: Neill, Joyce Ellen, 1906-2000

Reference: Eph-B-INSURANCE-1950-01

Description: Policy for Mr and Mrs Neill's house at Nathan Avenue, Paraparaumu Beach. Front page shows letterhead of the NZ Insurance Company. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 340 x 218 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Joyce Neill in 1997.

Date: 2001 - 1877 - 1878

By: Gordon, William Francis Robert, 1846-1936

Reference: Eph-D-ARTS-2001-01

Description: Shows a painted trompe l'oeil montage by William E Gordon "Stray leaves 1878". The original of this work is held at the Whanganui Regional Museum, bequest of William F Gordon, 1936. The items shown in the painting include: a banknote from the Bank of Australasia; a cheque from the Bank of New Zealand Wanganui Branch,an 1875 telegram; an issue of Te Waka Maori for 17 July 1877; an issue of the "Chronicle extra" concerning the loss of the "Avalanche"; a libretto of Gounod's opera "Faust"; the first issue of the "Serio-Comic" (an Australian periodical?) for 19 April 1877; a portrait of George Grey on a small card; an issue of the "Illustrated London news"; a nursery catalogue for James Laird's Egmont Nursery, Glasgow Street, Wanganui; sheet music for "The last rose of summer"; Wanganui Harmonic Society, 3rd concert 17 Ap[ril [1877?]; an issue of the "Grafton Observer"; a trade card for the New Zealand Insurance Company; an issue of the "Presbyterian Church news"; an engraved portrait of Edward Trickett (sportsman?); a sticker for Read Brothers - "The Bull-D[og]; a ticket for the Parramatta steamer; playing cards, dominoes. This exhibition also featured works by Henry Wrigg; see Roger Blackley's exhibition catalogue at NZ&P q759.9931 BLA 2001. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster 421 x 500 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Roger Blackley in 2001.

Date: 1883 - 1889 - 1986

By: Carabain, Jacques, 1834-1933; Aotea Centre (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: D-019-034

Description: Shows view of Queen Street, Auckland, from corner of Fort Street, with Victoria Arcade (demolished 1978) on left, and The New Zealand Insurance Company building with clock tower on right. In the left foreground is A. B. Donald's sailmaking business, and Anderson's Imperial Hotel. Partington's Mill can be seen on the distant horizon. Accompanied by descriptive text sheet. From a limited edition of 250 reproductions. Painted from an 1883 photograph by George Valentine. Inscriptions: Original signed and dated: Auckland 20 december 1889, J. Carabain. It is not known when Carabain visited New Zealand. Probably it was as a brief stopover between Melbourne and San Francisco, in about 1885. While there, he possibly purchased a copy of George Valentine's photograph from Chapman's booksellers in Vulcan Lane. From this photograph, he painted the original oil painting finishing it in his Brussels studio in 1889. Even by about 1885, when Carabain probably visited, the scene was not as it had been when Valentine took the photograph in 1883. Donald's shipchandlers had already been replaced by an imposing neoclassical facade, and the Victoria Arcade had a verandah. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 552 x 716 mm, on sheet 603 x 765 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1969

From: [New Zealand ephemera of quarto size, relating to insurance companies, insurance cover, insuring of property, travel and accident insurance]

Reference: Eph-B-INSURANCE-1920/1969

Description: Includes: 1928: Mutual Life and Citizens' Assurance Company Ltd. Medical certificate [blank form]. 76A 6m. F.7-28 0002 [1928?] 1930s: Wellington Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Association. Head Office Palmerston North; general manager P G Cope. Farmers! What about you! Pamphlet [ca 1930s] 1936: Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd. Bonus certificate to R Menzies (with accompanying envelope). 1936 New Zealand Insurance Company Ltd. Motorist special personal accident policy to Mr R L Weir, Maryborough 1938: Australian Mutual Provident Society. New Zealand Branch. [Advertising letter to Mr N L Shelton (Marton) from G N Deighton. 21 October 1938 1939: Auckland Underwriters Division. Invitation to staff social occasion at Middlemore Golf Links, 29 November 1939[Facsimile document] 1949: Farmers! Workers' Compensation Amendment Act 1947. On 1st April 1949 your employer's liability insurance MUST be with either the Government State Fire Office or YOUR OWN Farmers' Union Mutual Insurance Association. Don't delay! Attend to this now! Flier [1949] 1950: New Zealand Insurance Company Limited :Householder's policy. Private dwelling of residential flats (contents only). [1950] 1959: State Fire & Accident Insurance Office. Fire isn't the only risk ... [1959]. Pamphlet 1961: Mutual Life and Citizens' Assurance Company Ltd. Letters to Mrs H W Hannah re Policy no A80162/R - Harold William Hannah. 22 September and 2 October 1961 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: Acquired from various sources including donations from J Neill (1997), State Fire Insurance (2001), Ada Menzies (2012), Edward Mosig (2014), Lindsay Shelton (2014) Processing information: Pamphlet from 'New Zealand Government State Fire Insurance Office', 1913, combined with ATL-Group-00753, November 2022.