At one time it was the largest fire insurance company in the world.
Royal Insurance Company
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Manuscript
Correspondence
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
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Marvin album
Date: [Circa 1860s]
From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs
By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Marvin, William, 1834-1915
Reference: PA1-q-320
Description: Album of photographs taken during the 1860s by various photographers. All the images are related to Colonel William Marvin (1834-1915) who came to New Zealand circa 1858 and was possibly attached to the 70th Regiment of Foot during the New Zealand wars. There are many photographs relating to military activity, including military working parties at Fort Britomart; military and naval camps at Maungatawhiri Creek, Queen's Redoubt, Drury, Ngaruawahia and Albert Barracks; a monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; and the Auckland cemetery. Many of the images are of Auckland, including `Hale's Boarding House, where I first slept in N.Z.'; `The Masonic Hotel where I was made a mason in 1861'; `My last batchelor home near Constitution Hill green, next door to the Dacres'; `St. Mary's where I was married 4th August 1862'; a long sequence showing Queen Street from different angles in 1866'; and various homes that he knew, including Heaphy's house in St George's Bay, Dillon Bell's House in Parnell, and `Little Sutton' in St. George's Bay. Other images of interest include a mining camp at Coromandel; the tree on which Volkner was hanged, with a seated group of Maori beside a whare; a Maori church that is completely thatched, in the Waikato; and two views of the sailing ship Ida Ziegler [i.e. Zeigler] `In which we returned from N.Z. round Cape Horn, 29th Jany to 1st May 1867'. Photographs in England are all related to Tipner Barracks near Portsmouth, and Malpas Cemetery, Newport Monmouthshire. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with albumen prints. Label attached to cover `Pictures of N.Z. (N. Island) & Tipner with captions by Col. Marvin'. Textured black cover; 30 x 24 cm
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Wellington N.Z. from the Wharves.
Date: Between 1910 and 1913
Reference: PA5-0107
Description: Wellington N.Z., from the Wharves showing commercial buildings, a craine and signs reading `Head Office, C M Banks Ltd' and `Royal Insurance Company', taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 90 x 133 mm
Manuscript
Insurance and valuation file
Date: Feb 1983-Oct 1994
From: St Hilda's Church (Island Bay, Wellington) : Records
Reference: 2002-055-12
Description: Inward and otuward correspondence, reports, circulars etc relating to insurance and valuation matters Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Queen's Wharf, Wellington, facing Post Office Square, showing drays laden with goods
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-047368-G
Description: Queen's Wharf, Wellington, facing Post Office Square, showing a line of drays laden with goods. On the left a crane can be seen. C M Banks, Alcocks, Royal Insurance Company and the Pier Hotel can be identified in the background. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).