Wholesale trade

Date: 1986

From: [Ephemera of quarto sizes relating to alcohol and alcoholic beverages and drink, in New Zealand]

By: New Zealand Wines and Spirits (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-ALCOHOL-1986-01

Description: Booklet lists sales specials on the preliminary coloured pages. A fully detailed catalogue follows. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of [30], 46 pages, 203 x 263 mm.

Date: 1920-1944

From: Retail NZ: Records

Reference: Series-6893-3

Description: Comprises minute books for the Advisory Board and conference meetings. Includes two volumes for the Wellington Drapers', Clothiers', Mercers', and Boot Retailers' Association. Quantity: 5 volume(s). 1 folder(s) Newsprint notice..

Date: 1920-1993

By: New Zealand Retailers' Federation; Retail NZ

Reference: ATL-Group-00705

Description: Material detailing the workings and decisions of various industry organisations involved in the broad retail and manufacturing sectors, affiliated to and predating Retail NZ. The bulk of the minutes and photographs date from the 1940s to 1970s, but includes material dating back to the 1920s.Shows the working of business in the highly regulated post-war markets, including discussion of price control, import controls, trading hours, and industrial relations. Related organisations include the Hire Purchase Association, the New Zealand Automotive and Cycle Wholesalers Association, the New Zealand Bright Steel Bar Guild, the New Zealand Commercial Stationers' Guild, the New Zealand Drawing Materials and Reprographics Suppliers' Association, the New Zealand Engineers Merchants Association, New Zealand Drapers', Clothiers, Milliners' and Boot Retailers' Industrial Union of Employers, the New Zealand Federation of Drapers’ and Clothiers’, New Zealand Fish Retailers Federation, New Zealand Galvanised Sheet Guild, the New Zealand Office Equipment Importers' and Distributors' Federation, the New Zealand Office Equipment Trade Association, the New Zealand Retail Florists' Association, the New Zealand Wallboard Guild, Wellington Drapers', Clothiers', Mercers', and Boot Retailers' Association, the Wellington Drapers', Clothiers', Mercers', and Boot Retailers' Association, and the Wellington Office Machinery Importers' Association. Comprises bound volumes of meeting minutes, conference proceedings and reports, photographs of conferences and retail stores, and ephemera. Most of the minutes are typed, signed, and pasted into guard books. Several books also include pasted in newspaper clippings about the meetings and conferences, price lists, pieces of legislation, card invites to annual general meetings, and notices of special meetings. Some minutes are handwritten, or annotated and highlighted. Title supplied by Library. Wellington City Archives took possession of several boxes of material related to Wellington. Arrangement: This collection is a sample of the full Retail NZ archives. As such it came to the Library in no defined order. The archivist created series to reflect the structure of Retail NZ and subsidiaries, trade groups, and associated federations. Within that the arrangement is chronological. The New Zealand Retailers' Federation was set up in 1921. The Federation comprised of 15 nationwide district associations, some of which predated the Federation. They remained autonomous. The Federation was managed by a council appointed by the associations. Several national trade groups representing the various types of stores in the Federation were established. They were subordinate to the council in matters of national policy, but autonomous in matters affecting their own trading sphere. There were also national retail federations, guilds and associations that affiliated with the Federation, such as the New Zealand Commercial Stationers’ Guild. A national secretary and staff looked after general administration. The Federation established a subsidiary organisation (the New Zealand College of Retailing) for training and a limited liability company (Retailer Publishing Company) to publish one of its journals. In 1987 the Federation was wound up and reformed as the Retail and Wholesale Merchants Association, which included retail, distribution and wholesale merchants. It became incorporated at this time. In 2015 it rebranded as Retail NZ. Quantity: 73 b&w original photographic print(s) Mounted photographs, photographs, contact sheets and a panorama.. 42 volume(s) Guard volumes and minute books.. 9 folder(s) Insignia, booklets, correspondence, ephemera.. 6 colour original photographic print(s) One mounted photograph and four snapshots.. 2 cartoon(s). Physical Description: Volumes, photographs, cartoons, insignia. Processing information: Not all names associated with the collection have been indexed.

Date: 1967-1988

From: Retail NZ: Records

Reference: Series-6893-2

Description: Comprises minute books for the Association from 1978 to 1984, and the Cycle Section from 1967 to 1988. Also includes two group photographs of the annual conference held at Hanmer Springs in 1967. 1967 was the Jubilee year for the Association. Quantity: 2 volume(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1920-1993

From: Retail NZ: Records

Reference: Series-6893-1

Description: Comprises administrative records, conference proceedings and photographs from 1920 to 1993, and material relating to the Golden Jubilee in 1968. Includes: - Photographs of conferences and gatherings of the New Zealand Wholesale Hardware Guild’s Federation and related organisations from 1920 to 1993. - Research notes and a 'Golden Jubilee booklet, 1918-1968'. - Annual general meeting reports from February 1921 to February 1950, and general meeting minutes from November 1955 to February 1962. Quantity: 68 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). 4 folder(s). 1 volume(s).

Date: 1964 - 1965

From: [Miscellaneous ephemera related to selling and advertising of merchandise in retail outlets. 1960-1969]

By: Cranwell Publishing Company Limited

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1964-01

Description: Sales catalogue lists merchandise in two sections: 1. Fabrics, machinery and supplies (knitting machines, spinning machinery, crimping and hosiery machines, pleating machines, knitting machines, conveyor belts and trolleys, trasnporter systers, storage systems) 2. Clothing and allied lines, fancy goods (clothing, underwear, manchester, handbags, umbrellas, uniforms, sewing thread, hats, footwear) Catalogue is illustrated throughout with photolithographs and line drawings. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 168 pages, 268 x 205 mm.