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Gear Meat Company : Records
- Date
- [ca 1880-1887]
- By
- Gear Meat Company Ltd
- Reference
- MS-Group-0740
- Description
Comprises agreements re land, power of attorney, leases and other matters
Source of title - Supplied
Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further Gear Meat Company records
Quantity: 8 folder(s). 0.16 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Mss
Provenance: Probably part of 87-080, a collection found in the IBM building. This group was in the Manuscripts & Archives workroom awaiting papers conservation treatment.
Donor/Lender/Vendor - Found in Manuscripts and Archives Workroom, Jul 1998; probably part of 87-080
- Additional description
Conservation - Most of the material in this collection requires conservation treatment before it can be issued to researchers
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 8 folder(s), 0.16 Linear Metres, Business correspondence, Legal instruments, Contracts, Manuscripts, Mss
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Documents
Date: [1884-1887]
From: Gear Meat Company : Records
Reference: MSI-Papers-9324
Description: Comprises diagrams of cross-sections of machinery; memo of transfer from Isabella Ling (1884); deeds of agreement (complete and uncompleted) between the Gear Meat Company and the Petone Town Board (1888); and memorandum of lease between the Gear Meat Company and V T Hitchings for the Karere Block, Palmerston North Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Agreements
Date: 1883-1887
From: Gear Meat Company : Records
Reference: fMS-Papers-6330-4
Description: Assignment of mortgage between Joseph Beale, James Gear and Isabella Ling; agreements between Robert M Greenfield, James Stewart, James Lockie, William Finlay and William McIntosh Muir with George Hart re prospecting for petroleum in the Auckland district, Waipaoa block (1886); and agreement between the Gear Meat Co and the Petone Town Board re making a new street (1887)
Wages sheet book (freezing)
Date: Nov 1942-Nov 1943
From: Gear Meat Company : Records
Reference: MSY-5351
Description: Arrangement: Previously at 87-080 Q1019 Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Powers of attorney
Date: 1884
From: Gear Meat Company : Records
Reference: fMS-Papers-6330-5
Description: Two power of attorney agreements of the Gear Meat Company to the directors of the Bank of New Zealand
Wages sheet book (chamberhands)
Date: Mar 1942-Feb 1943
From: Gear Meat Company : Records
Reference: MSY-5349
Description: Arrangement: Previously at 87-080 Q1017 Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Correspondence and other papers
Date: 1884-1887
From: Gear Meat Company : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-6330
Description: Particulars of insurance policies; draft memorandum of transfer between company and crown; correspondence re the company and Petone Town Board re access, subidivision and related matters Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Agreements
Date: 1882-1887
From: Gear Meat Company : Records
Reference: fMS-Papers-6330-1
Description: Terms of agreement between James Gear and Joseph Beale and Joe Dransfield (1882); drafts of and reconveyances and releases between Gear and Beale and Isabelle Ling (1881-1883); assignment of a licenses of letters patent for the invention of an improvement of packing tins, and for the valuable improvements in machinery used for packing and pressing meat in tin cans (1882); and bond between the company and the Petone Town Board (1887)
Grants
Date: 1880-1881
From: Gear Meat Company : Records
Reference: fMS-Papers-6330-2
Description: Grants of right to use railway siding and to use right of way between James Gear and Benjamin Ling and John Chew and William John Raymond, and William James and Martha Ridler and Houstin Francis Logan; and earlier grant re the right of way between Henare te Puni and Rangi Whaaea with Ridler and Martha Ridler, Chew, Raymond and Logan (1880). Also grant of the right to use a patent for the improvement in packing tins, for Joseph Piper and James Gear.
Leases
Date: 1884-1886
From: Gear Meat Company : Records
Reference: fMS-Papers-6330-3
Description: Agreement in Maori by Henare te Puni and Matene Tauwhare and Apihaka Apiha Renata to lease certain lands at Petone to the Gear Company (1886); statement re te Puni's claim to the land to be leased by Ebenezer Baker(1884); and three uncompleted memorandums of lease between Oriiwia Ataukawa of Petone and Te Ruhia of Waikato (1884) Language - Agreement to lease land between Henare te Puni, Matene Tauwhare and the Gear Meat Company, is in Maori
Public Trustee documents
Date: [1884]
From: Gear Meat Company : Records
Reference: fMS-Papers-6330-6
Description: Six uncompleted memorandum of mortgage assignments between the Gear Meat Company and the Public Trustee; one has an attachment from Alexander Macdougall