F J Pinny Ltd

Date: 1930 - 1979

From: Miller, Adam, 1960-: Collection of New Zealand sound recordings and record sleeves

By: Weeks Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-PHONO-Miller-N/P

Description: Includes sleeves for the following firms: Nimmo's (Hamilton Nimmo & Sons), the home of His Master's Voice, piano, player, gramophone & RCA Radiola dealers. Head office and showrooms 89 Willis St., Wellington. Branches and agencies throughout New Zealand. (Illustrated with minstrel singing to woman at window) H Nimmo & Sons Ltd. Showrooms 89 Willis St.; Head office 42 Kent Ter., Wellington. The Big Three: Brinsmead, HMV, Gulbransen. [Printed by] Weeks Ltd., Auckland Nimmo's, famous for pianos, radios, refrigerators, washing machines (2 different versions) Nimmo's, New Zealand's leading music house. Cr Willis Street & Bond Street Wellington (shows illustration of building) (2 copies) Another "Vocalion" record from Nimmo's, for everything musical, Palmerston North Oates' Music Stores, 22 The Square, Palmerston North (Illustrated with minstrel singing to woman at window) The Oettli Gramophone Co., gramophone and radio specialists, 181 Cargill Road, South Dunedin. The Oettli Gramophone Parlours Limited, 153 King Edward Street, South Dunedin Cyril Parker's Melody Shop, Waipukurau, Phone 109. The world's finest music on His Master's Voice, Columbia, Parlophone, Regal [Zonophone, M.G.M., Decca, London, Vogue, Beltona, Brunswick] W G Perry, Queen Street, Southend, Masterton; agent for His Master's Voice, Brunswick, Zonophone gramophones and records. [Printed by] Lanksher's Limited, Printers, 12201 Petersen's Music store, phone 36-399, High Street (opposite Ashby Berghs). More of everything you want Petone Music Supplies Ltd. (Oppo[ .....] Post) W[ ......] n Petone Sports Centre, 243 Jackson Str., Petone. Capitol, made in NZ by Radio Corporation of New Zealand Ltd. Peverill's Record Store, 376 Worcester Street, Christchurch. The world's finest music on His Master's Voice, Columbia, Parlophone, Regal Zonophone, M.G.M., Decca, London, Vogue, Beltona, Brunswick F J Pinny Ltd, 58 Willis St. Hear the magnificent new Sonora Melodon (with or without radio). [Printed by] D W D Print, Wellington. (3 versions: 1 small with imprint;1 large and 1 small without imprint) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset and relief prints on record sleeves, sizes ranging up to 400 mm.

Date: 10 May 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084854-G

Description: Smashed shop window, FJ Pinny Ltd, Manners Street, Wellington. On May 10 1932, unemployed and striking relief workers demonstrated at Parliament. Some of this group later rioted, smashing windows in Lambton Quay, Manners Street and Willis Street. Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington. Source of descriptive information - From file print and Evening Post newspaper, Page 8, Issue 110, 11 May 1932. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1895

From: F W Niven & Co. :View of Wellington N Z [ca 1895] from Hill Street, Thorndon. F W Niven & Co. [lith] Ballarat, [Victoria, ca 1895]

Reference: D-002-008-004

Description: Lower left panel shows vignettes of the premises of the following companies: St John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington. Rev James Paterson, minister. Shows an exterior view of the church H J Freeman, watch and clock maker, jeweller, &c. Repairing agent for the Waterbury Watch Company. 16 Manners Street, Wellington. Shows an exterior view of the shop F J Pinny's Musical Instrument Depot. Try the celebrated Worcester and Smith organs. 7 Manners Street, Wellington. Shows the street facade of this shop Trinity Wesleyan Church, Newtown. This picture presented by W S Cobham Extended Title - Lower left panel from their "View of Wellington, N.Z., from Hill Street, Thorndon" [ca 1895] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 300 x 275 mm.

Date: 1905 - 1906

By: C M Banks Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-RUGBY-1905-01

Description: A poster showing portraits of team members in the 1905-1906 rugby tour of Great Britain, with a list of matches to be played. The poster features many advertisements for local Wellington businesses, including Globe Proprietary Company which features all around the border. There is a portrait of captain D Gallagher [ie Dave Gallaher] at top left, and the manager G H Dixon at top right. At lower left is a photograph of the game New Zealand v Britain at Wellington on 13 August 1904; and at lower right is a photograph of the match Britain v Auckland at Auckland on 20 August 1904. Other team members shown are: J Corbett, A McDonald, F Newton, J O'Sullivan, W Nicholson, A Seeling, G Tyler, F Glasgow, W Cunningham, T Casey, W S Glenn, W H Mackrell, W Johnstone, E E Booth, G Gillett, E T Harper, W J Wallace, R G Deans, J W Stead (vice-captain), G W Smith, H J Mynott, H D Thomson, F Roberts, D McGregor, J Hunter, H Abbott, J Duncan (coach) Advertisers include: London Piano Company, F J W Fear, The Dr LcLaughlin Company, Capilla Hair Tonic, Wellington Gas Company, East & East, Frank Grady, H Ernest Leighton, McIntyre & Orchard, T Shields, Robinson & Perrin for A.K. Invalid stout and Nelson A.K. Ale; Short's Land & Mercantile Auctioneer; Tonking's Linseed Emulsion; J Pinny, Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Coal Company, US Infallible Metal Polish, the Australian Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society Ltd, E W Mills & Co Ltd, Ritchie & Company, Muir's Photographic Studios, Andrews Manufacturing Company Ltd, London Dental Institute, H Fielder & Company house furnishers. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 895 x 570 mm.