National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand Ltd

Date: [ca 1870-1885]

From: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925 : Papers

Reference: 79-027-05

Description: Papers re election matters with electoral roll for Otaraia riding (1882-1883) and draft memo re Bunny and Buchanan; draft letters to the editor and notes re the Californian mail service; accounts; note re Maori land between Ohinemutu and Thames owned by H C Young; notes re drama; Onehunga land; list of Phillips' land ownership and contracts; notes on election speeches; Martin's land purchase; Bolingbroke; National Mortgage Agency accounts; correspondence with `Daily southern cross'; saleyard circular; drawing of mantelpiece and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing in Back file.

Date: 1955

From: [Ephemera relating to the wool industry and wool sales. 1920-1959]

By: Somerset Printing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-WOOL-1955-01

Description: Auction sales catalogue for a wool sale, arranged by lots from various companies: NZ Loan & Mercantile Agency Co Ltd, NZ Farmers' Co-op Assn Ltd, H Matson & Co, Dalgety & Company Ltd, Pyne Gould Guinness Ltd, and National Mortgage & Agency Co. Ltd. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 15 sheets, each 325 x 205 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2007.

Date: Jun-Sep 1882

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-104

Description: Identified persons entered under Name below; also includes letter from [?] Wright regarding employment of brother, S Goslyn Wright; map bounded by Rockwood, Washfern Creek and Hororata; and note regarding `Dad's Peerage' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Map showing properties bounded by the road to Rockwood, [?] Washfern Creek and the Hororata River; T Hazzard's name included

Date: ca 1903

By: Bussell, T F, active 20th century; Pigott, John Ernest, 1862-1932

Reference: PAColl-6346

Description: Photographs of: a row of shops in the snow including a butchers, M Hatrick & Co general merchants and a branch of the National Mortgage & Agency with the agent F(?) H Burn; sheets of ice formed under a wooden aqueduct next to some pollarded trees; a lake in the domain; the Gladstone Grand Hotel; and the railway station in the snow. Photographer was J E Pigott Arrangement: Copy negatives housed at 1/2-002385 to 002389 Quantity: 5 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 28 Nov 1985

From: NZOHA Fletcher Challenge Ltd Oral History Project

By: Ritchie, Michael Ian, 1919-2008

Reference: OHInt-0001/04

Description: Mike Ritchie born Dunedin, one of a family of 6 children. Outlines family background - paternal grandfather, John McFarlane Ritchie came to New Zealand ca 1860s and formed Russell Ritchie and Co. - paternal grandmother (nee McLaren) lived in `Balvraid', a house in Dunedin. Maternal great grandfather, the Rev William Aylmer was first vicar of Akaroa - maternal grandfather, John Rattray joined with Dalgety to form J Rattray & Co. Dunedin, subsequently, J Rattray & Son, wholesale grocers. Mentions material written by grandfather, James Rattray in 1884 and family memoirs written at family home, Craighall, Mornington, Dunedin. Father a medical practitioner - recalls effect of depression on his medical income. Describes happy childhood and compares schools with present day schools. Won Soames Scholarship to Christ's College. Left school aged 17 because of Depression. Gives details of career starting as office boy with NMA (National Mortgage and Agency Company) Dunedin in 1937. Mentions NMA personalities; Freddy Wilson (Accountant); George Macavoy (Internal auditor); John Bews; G R Ritchie; W O McKellar; Jimmy Farquharson' Bill Satterthwaite (Trading Manager) and Bob Henderson (Secretary). In 1941 (World War II) joined Fleet Air Arm, becoming a fighter pilot. Describes training in detail and outlines his flying experience; Sierra Leone, where he flew Swordfish, escorting convoys from England; Eastern Fleet, based in Kenya, where he flew Martlets (American Wildcats); 1944 joined British Pacific Fleet. Refers to carriers; HMS Illustrious, HMS Victorious; HMS Indefatigable and HMS Indomitable. Returned to New Zealand in 1946 and remainder of interview covers his experience as Stock and Station agent. Mentions; Bill Lawrence; Rupert Iles; Steve Lester; Bruce Patson; Pyne Gould Guiness; Trevor Thomas & Co. Ashburton; Matson & Co. Christchurch. Gives reasons for move of Head Office to New Zealand. Discusses Wright Stephenson/NMA Merger in 1972. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - 38 A Friend Street, Karori Accompanying material - Newspaper article on Mr Ritchie and 2 photocopies of Mr James Rattray and Mrs James Rattray (nee Catherine Aylmer) plus a photocopy of memorial stone of William Joseph Aylmer and Aylmer family tree. Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 0152. One photograph of Mick in 1941

Date: 20 Nov 1985

From: NZOHA Fletcher Challenge Ltd Oral History Project

By: Huse, Henry William, 1916-2004

Reference: OHInt-0001/05

Description: Born in Palmerston North, the eldest of four children. Father was a telegraphist with the Post Office, and on retirement set himself up in a small business making wooden stepladders etc. Recalls childhood memories; discipline/punishment; religion; politics; social life; contact with Maori; sex education/childbirth; depression; and schools. Mentions local personalities; Jimmy Nash MP and Wattie Franks. Talks about first job in store and office at Alfa Laval Seperator Company with reference to staff; Brian Opie; Charles McMillan; Gott Lonn and Harry Johansen. Joined staff of J B MacEwan (later MacEwans Machinery) and outlines career stretching from 1935 as a junior clerk where he rose to Chairman through Director of Levin & Co. to Chief excutive of NMA (National Mortgage & Agency Co. of New Zealand Ltd). He was instrumental with Sir Ronald Trotter in the merger of NMA with Wright Stephenson before his retirement in 1976. Discusses his war service (World War II) - enlisted early 1940 and spent nearly 5 years in Middle East with 2nd NZEF Artillery. After war continued with J B MacEwan. Gives details of V R Gunn's career. Mentions competition with New Zealand Dairy Company. Describes relationship with Stock and Station Companies. Refers to introduction of milk tankers as a fundamental change. Appointed Director of Levin & Co. Ltd and manager of Machinery Department. Elaborates on the APB-Bell/Bryant Crisis (proposed takeover of MacEwans) and the winding up of Levin's Australian Branches. Refers to P F Burgess; G H M Cooper; L D F Galloway; P L Gould; J C L Lindstrom; R R Masefield; I Whittaker; M R Finn; M A Dusfield; M K Hammond and H B Hoskins. Venue - Upper Hutt Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 12 Barton Road, Upper Hutt Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 0145.

Date: 15 Nov 1985

From: NZOHA Fletcher Challenge Ltd Oral History Project

By: Henderson, Robert Henry, 1903-1990

Reference: OHInt-0001/19

Description: Born Dunedin in 1903. Outlines family background - paternal grandfather arrived in New Zealand from Scotland ca 1848 - maternal grandparents, Alexander and Sarah Borthwick came to New Zealand from York (England) in 1868 and settled in West Otago. Recalls early memories: religion - parents belonged to Congregationalist Church; politics; family's first car, a 1914 Buick, costing 345 pounds (sterling); schools; World War I (1914-1918); flu epidemic, 1918; Springbok test at Carisbrooke Park (1921). Gives origins of NMA which he joined in Dunedin as office boy in 1920, retiring as chief accountant of the company in 1963, and became a Board member in 1972. Refers to head office staff - G R Ritchie, James Farquharson, W Turnbull, and E Moore, who became general manager of British Woollen Mills in 1926. Mentions women in NMA and their role as typists. Describes NMA 's financial methods and other stock and station companies between 1880-1930 and the effect the depression had, refers to six month slump in 1921. Mentions competition between NMA and Wright Stephenson & Co. Other topics discussed include; fish/rabbit business, mentions trawler SS Hahanui; further education at Otago University; takeovers - merger of Murray Roberts, Wards, Levin & Co.; 1964 letter from Lord Glenconner; historical background to merger with Wright Stephenson & Co; Fletcher Challenge merger. Explains his long association with Otago University, as a student and member of the University Council. Accompanying material - Copy of informal codicil to his Last Will and Testament Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Flat 1, 29 Aberdeen Road, Castor Bay, Auckland Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 0143.

Date: 16 Jun 1986

From: NZOHA Fletcher Challenge Ltd Oral History Project

By: MacLennan, Victor George, 1925-2008

Reference: OHInt-0001/18

Description: Vic MacLenan born in Auckland 1925. Outlines family background. Recalls childhood memories; mother's disseminated sclerosis (Multiple Sclerosis) and her death when he was nine years; father's re-marriage; religion; contact with Maori; depression 1930s; schools - won Trust Bank Savings Scholarship to New Plymouth Boys' High School. Refers to Bill Moyles (Headmaster); C G Bottrill, Charlie Brenstrom; George Bertrand, later in command of the Maori Battalion (World War II); John Hatherley. Joined Audit Department as cadet in 1943 - Refers to Bill Edwards; Selwyn Perry, Charlie Gair, Tim Trehy, C G Collins (Controler and Auditor General). Moved to ICI (1946-1948), then joined J G Ward & Co as accountant. Refers to Gordon Corbett (Managing Director). Backgrounds Wards eventual takeover of Carswell & Co. Refers to Black Budget (1958) and its effect on other small companies. Wards merged with NMA. Levin & Co, Murray Roberts, Matsons, Vercoes, Alfred Buckland & Sons Ltd simialary merged within 2 years. Explains competition and rivarly with Dalgety & Co. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co, Wright Stephenson & Co, NMA, Southland Farmers, Carswell & Co, Henderson & Co. and J R Mills & Sons in Southland. Mentions Bob Curry of Mossburn, Gordon Corbett. Backgrounds formation of Awarua Lime Works Ltd (ca 1952); merger of J G Ward with NMA. Talks about involvement in company pension fund, organisation and amalgamation. Gives history of Vasasour Company who tried to take over NMA. Backgrounds mergers leading to establishment of Fletcher Challenge Ltd in 1981. Vic retired as Company Secretary of Fletcher Challenge in 1985 and is currently a trustee of Fletcher Challenge Ltd Pension Fund. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 126 Nile Street, Nelson Accompanying material - Newspaper cutting farewelling Company Secretary Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 0148.

Date: 30 Mar-5 Nov 1992 - 30 Mar 1992 - 05 Nov 1992

From: The Changing Role of Stock and Station Firms in North Otago

By: Simpson, William James Lindsay, 1922-2013

Reference: OHInt-0081/07

Description: Lindsay Simpson was born at Tokarahi on 31 January 1922. Outlines his career with National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand (NMA) in positions ranging from office boy to managing director. Talks about career moves to Dunedin, Auckland and Wellington. Describes the merger of Wrightson and NMA in 1972 and becoming General Manager for the New Zealand Stock and Station Agents Association. Talks about his wartime service in the New Zealand Navy and being chosen in 1953 as a member of the New Zealand Returned Services Contingent to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Talks about wool buyers and the New Zealand Wool Brokers Association. Gives a brief history of NMA which was established by George Grey Russell and John McFarlane Ritchie. Comments on W.G. Spite who managed the firm in the 1940s. Lists and describes stock and station firms in Oamaru in the 1950s. Talks about auctioneers and other staff. Summarises local stock and station firm takeovers and amalgamations. Venue - Kakanui : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Joy Green Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005501; OHC-005502; OHC-005503; OHC-005504 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1099. Photocopy of photograph of Lindsay Simpson in 1983; photocopy of photograph of Lindsay Simpson with Navy colleagues in 1953

Date: 4 Nov 1992 - 04 Nov 1992

From: The Changing Role of Stock and Station Firms in North Otago

By: Spite, Wilson Garfield, active 1993

Reference: OHInt-0081/08

Description: Wilson Spite records memories of his father Walter Garfield Spite who was born in Ravensbourne on 8 June 1887. Describes his father's family background, education, sporting interests, family cars and his career, starting as a clerk and then becoming an agent at Otautau. Explains why he was admitted by the Society of Accountants when it first started. Talks about his volunteering for World War I, being in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade at Egypt, the Somme and Passchendaele. Describes his work in Invercargill, Timaru and Waimate as a manager. Talks about his marriage to Muriel Hodges, a schoolteacher, in 1921. Explains the origins of the New Zealand Land Company (NMA) and elaborates on how the firm worked, its agencies including shipping and its merger with Wrightsons. Talks about NMA's capital structure and efforts by Walter Garfield Spite to minimise farmers' debts in the Depression. Comments on the silting up of Oamaru harbour. Describes the Lease in Perpetuity (LIP) scheme and explains the wool appraisal scheme and the Mortgages Relief and Rehabilitation Act. Defines the North Otago NMA territory. Comments on the loyalty of farmers. Venue - Oamaru : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Joy Green Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005495 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1097. Photocopy of photograph of Walter Garfield Spite about 1952; photocopies of photographs of agent at Otautau and his car about 1908

Date: 1960 - 1969

From: [New Zealand calendars and blank diaries of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-CALENDAR-1960s-2

Description: Includes: 1964: National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand Ltd. Pocket diary for 1964 1965: Collins "New Zealand" handy diary 1965 1966: National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand Ltd. Pocket diary for 1966 1967: Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Ltd. 1967 calendar featuring mouth and foot art (by Jim Driver (NZ), Irene Schricker (Germany), Johannes Michalski (Belgium), Erich Stegman (Germany), C Pasche, E Macho, M Parreno, J Shihora, G Barbedienne, A E Baker, H L Baril, Peter Spencer, E Twistington Higgens 1968: National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand Ltd. Pocket diary for 1968 Taken in by NZ&P as a whole, past on from there. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 5 booklets. Physical Description: Multi-page booklets, sizes varying up to 125 mm.

Date: 1857-1858, 1883-1884, 1948-1961

From: Levin & Company Ltd : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1347-9/1

Description: Includes correspondence re history of Levin branches at Hawera, nelson and Sydney, 1948; correspondence outlining the beginning of Levin's association with the National Bank of New Zealand, 1964; newspaper clippings on the projected National Mortgage Agency takeover of Levins and Murray Roberts, 1960-1961. Cheque butts, 1857-1858; `The housekeeper's memorandum book', 1875 (entries dated 1883-1884). `Levin & Co Ltd and associate companies superannuation fund regulations', printed by Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, n d Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1930-1956

From: New Zealand Truth : Files of the Financial Editor

Reference: MS-Papers-1188-233

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1866 - 1937

From: Brandon family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5634-1

Description: Comprises letters and notes including letter from N F ?Coote, Matahiwi, Masterton (1866); covering note from David Lewis re John Hamett (1878); correspondence re Hamett from G ?Graham, Adelaide, Richard Kirby, Port Victor, J Morpeth of Parliament House, Adelaide and others (1882); instrument by way of security for Albert Ernest Linley (1937); AMP (1880) and National Mortgage and Agency Co re Brandon (dec.) (1950); and other papers (names entered where legible; subject content not clear) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Jan-Apr 1881

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-099

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered under Name below; also includes letter from D [?] Inwood, Addington Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 19 Mar 1963

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-59486-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate