Stockholders
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :At its A.G.M. in an Auckland hotel, the National Blood...
Date: 1985
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
Reference: B-136-478
Description: The first scene shows the horse standing on the red carpet being introduced to an enthusiastic crowd who are clapping and cheering. The second scene shows a corridor and the horse being led past the bar. Inside the bar one of the patrons can be seen telling the barman that he won't have anything more to drink because he thought he'd seen a horse and was worried he'd be seeing 'pink elephants next'. Extended Title - No doubt shareholders reacted with enthusiasm - but what about some hotel patrons? Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 298 x 429 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.
Hotel Buller Ltd :Prospectus of Hotel Buller Limited (a company to be incorporated unde...
Date: 1935
From: [Ephemera relating to various miscellaneous hotels in locations or towns beginning with the letters N to Z. 1900-2000s]
Reference: Eph-B-HOTEL-Westport-1935-01
Description: A prospectus and application form for the Hotel Buller company. Lists the provisional directors who lived in Nelson and Westport (Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Jack Newman, Percy Stratton Boyes, John McLean Robertson and Henry Lovell). The booklet also contains the Memorandum of Association. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, and loose flier, 268 x 212 mm.
Wainui-o-mata Development Ltd : Records
Date: 1927-1975
By: Wainui-o-mata Development Ltd
Reference: 79-130
Description: The collection includes minute books of directors, shareholders etc (1927-1973); details of sections sales (1944-1970); share details, accounts, ledgers and other financial records, etc and details early development of Wainuiomata as a garden suburb Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See also Micro-MS-0791 Quantity: 9 box(es). 49 volume(s). 4.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Two maps, 1928, possibly transferred to Cartographic when the collection came in in 1979; no details attached.
Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company Ltd : Records
Date: [1883]
By: Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company Ltd
Reference: MSI-Papers-6241
Description: Comprises map of portion of the North Island affected by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Co with six colour codes defining owners of sections of land between Wellington and the Rangitikei River (London, 1883), with inset, `Sketch map of the North Island showing the railway system'; prospectus for the Company; form of application for shares (partly filled in); list of principal shareholders; independent valuation of lands of the company by J W Gower and Jas G Wilson; and printed letter from Sir William Fox, late premier of New Zealand, to the first shareholder of the company, J E Nathan Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter with holograph addition Two maps showing the proposed Thorndon reclamation for the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company and map showing the portion of land affected by the company's proposals
Maori language, songs, place names and poetry
Date: [19-?]-1930
From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0062-40
Description: Includes a poem from Pat Lawlor,`The Ould bog hole' and a poem, with explanation, `Freya'. Also includes a waiata tangi (funeral dirge) written by Te Ika Here Ngutu regarding his children who were either killed in conflict or died of disease later on. Includes a school haka for `Victoria College' and an index with Maori headings; lists of Maori place names for various regions (Wellington, Napier, Gisborne) and provides linguistic rules and grammar for appropriate pronunciation. Also includes whakapapa, an essay on comparative language between Maori and the Pacific Islands. Includes the song `Pokarekare ana', and list of names with ages and gender [perhaps a shareholders list] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (some with ms annotations), mss and typescripts
Manawatu Shipping Company Ltd : Memorandum of agreement
Date: 1919
By: Manawatu Shipping Company Ltd
Reference: MS-Papers-10318
Description: Memorandum of agreement between Manawatu Shipping Company Lts and Levin & Company Ltd, Jul 1919. Includes names of shareholders with Levin & Company Ltd (the vendor); and Copy agreement dated Sep 1919 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Deposited with Bell, Gully, Buddle Weir, Wellington, 1988
Dominion Farmers Institute : Records
Date: [1915-1965]
By: Dominion Farmers' Institute
Reference: 77-116
Description: Comprises minutes, journals, share registers and register of members, registers of notices and of proxies and application and allotment and register of transfers Also includes contacts for building DFI building, legal papers, correspondence re construction of building, tenders, balance sheets, directors' reports and annual reports, bye-laws, share transfers, prospectuses , `50 years - A survey' and other papers Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - 50 years - A survey, by The Dominion Farmers' Institute (1965) The institute was established in 1915 by A Leigh Hunt who conceived the idea of a central home for all the farmers' organisations Quantity: 1 box(es). 10 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Partial listing available. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - See accession card.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : Records
Date: 1916-1917
By: Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd
Reference: MS-Group-1580
Description: Comprises two registers of shareholders in Dunedin, Hobart and Sydney for the Union Steam Ship Company (1917), and twenty certificates of stock transferred to P & O from the Union Steam Ship Company; all resulting from the take-over of the USSCo by P & O in 1917. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 2 volume(s). 1 box(es). 0.50 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, 2007
Personal, financial, official and miscellaneous papers
Date: [ca 1874?-1898]
From: McLean family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1035
Description: Most of the papers in the folder relate to R D D Maclean and include papers papers relating to farming, business, memberships and donations, detailed summary of Ngatarawa Block associations, accounts and receipts, draft outward letters including one to Sir Julius, business, wool and farming, charities, picture delivery from S Hildesheimer and Co (London), letter from E H Parke (London), flyers for Cannon's Dip and Little's sheep dip, Hastings Club membership, decorating notes, letter re importation of dogs and other papers (identified persons entered under Name) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969
McKelvie Studio (Wellington) :Portrait of Mr E Nathan
Date: [ca 1959-1960]
By: McKelvie Studio
Reference: PA7-58-24
Description: Photograph of E Nathan, Chairman 1954-1959 (of Stock Exchange?). Photograph taken by McKelvie Studio, Wellington, ca 1959-1960 File print of framed portrait at 920. Nathan, E. [1/2-032184] Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 37.5 x 29.8 cm
Auckland Milk Company Ltd : Records
Date: 1915-1957
By: Auckland Milk Company Ltd
Reference: MS-Group-0813
Description: Minutes if directors' meetings, accounts, factory records, records of shareholders, and other financial records Quantity: 11 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescript Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on on 20 November 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..
Moturoa Oil Fields Ltd :[Circulars to shareholders. 11 April and 8 July 1932]
Date: 1932
From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to petrol, motor fuels, petroleum industry, drilling]
By: Moturoa Oilfields Ltd
Reference: Eph-B-PETROL-1932-01
Description: Pamphlets advising shareholders about the Moturoa Oil Fields, near New Plymouth, and the drilling progress. Quantity: 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 260 x 210 mm.
La Previdente : Registro Azionisti
Date: 3 Aug 1901-1 Jan 1917
By: Provident Society
Reference: MSX-7269
Description: Register azionisti, La Previdente [sic], Sindacato Italiano d'Importazione, Wellington Nuova-Zelanda; Fondate if 3 Agosto 1901; also note, `Questo registro incommua col 1 Gen 1917'. Has alphabetical index of shareholders with notes about their contributions. Language - Volume needs checking by Italian reader to complete description of item Source of title - Transcribed from item Other - Azionisti is from azionisti, meaning shareholder; and previdente means prude. In this instance it has become the Provident Institute. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr J Barnao, Levin, Mar 2005
Interview with Margot Hutchison
Date: 1 October 1990 - 01 Oct 1990
From: Todd Corporation Oral History Project
By: Hutchison, Margot Mary, 1936-
Reference: OHInt-0146/7
Description: Margot Mary Hutchison (nee Todd) born Wellington. Outlines family background - maternal grandfather, David Buddo, was an MP (Liberal/National: 1893-1896; 1899-1919; 1922-1928 and Minister of Health, 1909-1912 - father, Sir Bryan Todd grew up in Heriot. Describes in detail other members of the Todd family; childhood; education at Woodford House and later a year at Arosa, a finishing School in Switzerland; marriage to James Gibb Hutchison and bringing up a family of 4 children in Christchurch. Talks about the business, Todd Corporation, from the point of view of a family shareholder. Gives reasons for absence of women in key roles in the Company. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - 126 Bolton Street, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003593-003594 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0615. 2 photographs and photocopies of three b&w photographs: (i) Margot Hutchison (nee Todd) with grandson, Oliver T Archibald, (left) and Colleen Scott with grandson, George H Scott (right), July 1990; (ii) L-R: Deborah (`Libby') Janet Todd, age 3.5 months, Philippa Helen Todd, age 8 years and Margot Mary Todd, age 2 years, February 1939 (?); (iii) Margot Hutchison (nee Todd) aged ca 12 years; (iv), Margot Hutchison (nee Todd), aged ca 8 years and (v) Margot Hutchison (nee Todd), 1937.
Interview with Jim Brett
Date: 26 Oct 1999
From: Mussel farming oral history project
By: Brett, James Bernard, active 1974-1999
Reference: OHInt-0491-04
Description: James Bernard (Jim) Brett recalls time as engineer at Nelson Packhouse, a very successful fruit packing operation. Mentions manager, Gordon Thorburn. Backgrounds proposal that packhouse form marine division with mussel farmers as B-shareholders and outlines the outcome. Refers to marine biologist, Graeme Clarke and Neil Boyd, marine scientist, Nelson. Discusses the use of mussels by American firm, Aquaculture, in the study of cancer treatment and treatment of arthritis - anti-inflamatory effect, with reference to Stuart McFarlane (McFarlane Laboratories) and George Pickering. Gives reasons for leaving Nelson Packhouse early 1980s, with reference to disputes over Havelock factory. Discusses his work on processing machinery, developing operners, de-bearders etc and involvement with automating lines and developing factory systems. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Carol Dawber Venue - Nayland Road, Nelson Accompanying material - Photocopy of information re copyright and register of patents Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007875-OHC-007876 Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2102.
Recordings of Annual General Meetings
Date: 1988-2000
From: Brierley Investments: Records
Reference: Series-6872
Description: Recording of Brierley Investments Ltd's annual general meetings. Quantity: 44 videocassette(s) Betacam-SP. 12 videocassette(s) VHS. 7 C90 cassette(s). 4 videocassette(s) Betacam. 2 videocassette(s) S-VHS. 2 audiocassette(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 C30 cassette(s).
Energy Direct Corporation Ltd :Being a shareholder; an information guide [and other eph...
Date: 1993
From: [Ephemera up to quarto size, relating to business enterprises, firms and companies]
By: EnergyDirect Corporation
Reference: Eph-B-COMPANY-E-1993-01
Description: Information for shareholders, letters and communications from the company. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, photocopies, on booklets and lettehead, sizes varying up to 297 mm.
"By the way what are your qualifications?" "I used to run a finance company."
Date: 25 August 2010
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-368
Description: Two tourists are taken on a ride through the rapids in a boat named 'Reckless Roy's Adventure Tours'. He says that his qualifications are that he used to run a finance company. Context; the collapse of various finance companies since the 2008 recession. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - 25A10BODYCARTOON Pls send to MediaGrid [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 340 mm
SkyCity Limited: Share buyback, 4 May 1998
Date: 1998
From: [Ephemera up to quarto size, relating to business enterprises, firms and companies]
By: EnergyDirect Corporation
Reference: Eph-B-COMPANY-S-1998-01
Description: Booklet for shareholders of the company, with information about the buyback. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 297 x 210 mm.
Commercial Securities Ltd: Prospectus of an issue at par of 2,000,000 ordinary shares a...
Date: 1983
From: [Ephemera up to quarto size, relating to business enterprises, firms and companies]
By: Commercial Securities & Finance
Reference: Eph-B-COMPANY-C-1983-01
Description: Booklet contains information for shareholders, photographs of the directors, chairman's report, auditor's report and additional statutory information. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 18 pages, 297 x 210 mm.