Nelson Brothers Ltd

Date: [ca 1855-1899]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1039

Description: Most of the papers in this folder relate to R D D Maclean and include accounts and receipts, correspondence re purchase of a horse, a stud horses booklet for the property of the Duke of Beaufort, Badminton (1880), clippings, copy of account, Capt and Mrs McLean with Douglas Maclean (1877), Maraekakaho stock valuation (1879-1882). Identified persons entered under Name. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: 1892-1964

By: Sunderland, Richard, 1880-1964

Reference: Micro-MS-0761

Description: Biography (3 pages) of his life, written in 1964. Also reminiscences (entitled Logbook) of his life up to 1916 as a sheep farmer on Mangateretere Station under John Lane for Nelson Bros Ltd, as manager of Hukanui and other Hawkes Bay sheep stations, and at Te Apiti. Description of 1897 floods and of people he worked with or met. Farm records, mainly of sheep and wool, at Swarthmoor, 1892-1894, made by Andrew Graham for Sunderland's father. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 72 pages). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [ca 1874-1897]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1029

Description: Papers relating to R D D Maclean and including circular letters, membership papers (including lodge), charitable matters, stocks and shares, shipping, loans and financial papers, local affairs, legal matters, farming and stock concerns, shipping, clippings on financial and other matters, accounts and receipts, letter from Jane Guinan of Woodville to her sister Miss M Guinan at Maraekakaho, story entitled `A Visit to a haunted house, 1882', RMS `Tainui' menus, receipt from Rev D MacInnes for annuity paid to Miss Isabella McColl, 1889 and miscellaneous notes and papers. Identified persons entered under Name. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: [ca 1877-1898]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1027

Description: The papers relate to R D D Maclean and include memos re Hawke's Bay County Council meetings; accounts; draft petition re the government taking over the Terraces Hotel, Taupo, as a sanitorium; correspondence and estimates re Maraekakaho; papers re property, politics; the `Scots minstrelsie: a national monument of Scottish song' (an annotated flyer); financial matters, information brochure for the Grammar School, Napier; brochure for the Hawke's Bay Amateur Athletic Club and Wanderers Bicycle Club combined sports meeting; Napier Rowing Club circular letter and Maclean's membership card; correspondence re freight of a cross and tablet from Edinburgh to NZ. Identified persons entered under Name; many are not identified. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: [ca 1870-1898]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1044

Description: Most of the papers in this folder relate to R D D Maclean and include accounts and receipts, clippings, report on Hawke's Bay A & P Association AGM (1889), invitations to Lady Knutsford and from Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres, letters on breeding ponies from Fred [?] Swindley, request for attendance as HJP, re hares and hounds racing, property matters, schedule for game of haunted houses, also letter from Napier on headed `Rosam ne rode (1878), and letter in Maori from Rora Poneke, Korongata, asking R D D Maclean if could borrow a buggy (1883). Identified persons entered under Name. Language - Letter from Rora Poneke to R D D Maclean Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Seven small photographs showing aspects of farming, buildings, sheep and a horse.

Date: [ca 1874-1900]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1028

Description: The papers relate to R D D Maclean and include correspondence re business, shipping, financial concerns, donations, Road Board land tax assessment, land and property matters including correspondence re Wellington Hospital Convalescent Home, Hay Street, Oriental Bay; 16th Annual Report of Star Boating Club, 1881-1882; Maclean's winning of a gold medal for a wool exhibit in the Paris Universal Exhibition (London) (1889); accounts, receipts, stocks and shares and subscriptions; papers re recreational interests; plan of table for Imperial Federation League dinner; hymn sheet; letter from Toronto complimenting Maclean on his work toward jubilee services in NZ; shearing return 1890-1895 from J A Torr; correspondence between Donald McLean and Captain Maling of Government House (1877); visitor's safe receipt; Papers re Colonel Herrick and Robert Dobson, 1886-1887, and other papers. Identified persons entered under Name. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: [ca 1877-1900]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1045

Description: The papers in this folder relate to R D D Maclean and include accounts and receipts, menus, membership, charitable donations, papers re travel, re sale of Waingaromia no 2 Block (1894), the wool industsry and trade, politics, requests for Maclean to intercede for employment and other papers. Identified persons entered under Name. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: [ca 1870-1900]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1043

Description: The papers in this folder relate to R D D Maclean and include letters relating to business, farming, donations and charitable gifts Maclean has made, requests for help gaining employment, one unsigned [Edmond Bourgeois?] providing a detailed summary of his and his family's financial situation and a list of his children's health status (one died) and that of himself and his wife, land matters including re Goathurst Farm, court matters, thanks for his grant of land to Napier Education Board (1893) and other matters. Also includes photocopy of photograph from John D Enys of an American snow gate with design of same. Letter to Algernon C Fountaine requesting to paint his portrait, 1900. Identified persons entered under Name. Language - Letter from Edmond [?] Bourgeois, Napier, in French Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Original of photograph of Castle Hill Station's American snow gate.

Date: [ca 1877-1895]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1038

Description: Most of the papers in this folder relate to R D D Maclean and include accounts and receipts, correspondence relating to farming, property, wool trade, stocks and shares. Also includes letter of introduction for Maclean to Messrs W & J Whitehead, Bradford; also letter from Charlotte Burgess re family problems, tax account; Identified persons entered under Name. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: 1886-1920, 1946

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records

Reference: 81-295-39

Description: Power of Attorney, guarantee agreements, correspondence, 1887-1909; correspondence, 1887-1888; agreements, memos and correspondence, 1888-1891; Petone subdivision cadastral maps, 1892; lease agreement between Gear Meat Co & Harry Tyler of Ngahauranga, fellmonger, 1888; correspondence and agreement with Nelson Bros Ltd, Hawke's Bay, 1893; licence for slaughtering, 1892; agreements between Gear Meat Co & S Oppenheimer & Co Inc (USA), 1894, 1946; NZ Accident Insurance Co policy, 1894; letters of credit, Kidder, Peabody & Co, Boston, 1903-1913; Wellington Harbour Board election of member, 1911; sale of manure plant to Lever Bros, 1917 and papers re certificate of title; Extraordinary General Meeting special resolutions and papers re shareholders, 1920 Quantity: 1 box(es) hollinger (15 folders).

Date: Sep-Oct 1885

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-121

Description: Includes list of securities for Mrs Neall and Mrs Stacpoole Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1877-1897

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0858

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1860 - 1879

From: [Baigent, Amos], fl 1860-90s :Sketchbook. 1860-90s].

By: Baigent, Amos, 1845-1925; Turner, R M (Mr), active 1969

Reference: E-121-q-027

Description: Shows two men leading horses as they herd sheep with their dog in the field in the foreground. One of the men is smoking as he walks. In the background behind low fences, is the verandahed homestead of the station, with trees planted around it. There are hills in thedistance. Other Titles - Nelson Brothers Hawkes Bay Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, on page 138 x 230 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr R M Turner, Maketu, August 1969.

Date: 1892 - 1894

Reference: PUBL-0140

Description: A factory chimney to the left, a railway line and carriages entering a large shed, with a two-storied factory building behind and trees in the background. On the right is a sheep or cattle pen. The lower view is a semi-aerial view of the freezing works Copied from an unknown original. Reproduced in Making New Zealand, Vol. 1 no. 12, p. 10, to illustrate an article on refrigeration. Compare PUBL-0140-2, a view of the same works from the opposite side Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of wood engraving

Date: 1892 - 1894

From: Artist unknown :[Nelson Brothers Tomoana Freezing Works, near Hastings, ca 1893 and The first freezing works erected in Hawkes Bay, ca 1893]

Reference: PUBL-0140-2

Description: Trees in the foreground, a cluster of large and small buildings, mostly tall and narrow, with small windows in the middle distance, hills, a railway track and a train in the background Copied from an unknown original. Reproduced in Making New Zealand, Vol. 1 no. 12, p. 10, to illustrate an article on refrigeration. Compare PUBL-0140-1, which shows the same works from the opposite side Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of wood engraving

Date: 1887

By: Maclean, E W (Mr), active 1937

Reference: Eph-E-MEAT-1887-01

Description: Illustrations (some by Hare and some by S.B.) and text about the export meat trade. The illustrations show: A New Zealand sheep station / Hare sc. Breeds of sheep Preparing for shipment Saloon of NZSCo's RMS 'Rimutaka' / S.B. New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. 'Rimutaka', with passengers and frozen mutton, leaving Port Lyttelton, New Zealand, for London [Two] views of freezing works, Tomoana, Hawkes Bay, NZ Discharging freezing chamber / SB; S Hare sc Haslam's freezing machines, as used by Nelson Brothers for the refrogerating chambers Messers [sic] Black & Stimpson's Central Meat Market, London / Hare sc. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 750 x 612 mm.

Date: 1892 - 1894

From: Artist unknown :[Nelson Brothers Tomoana Freezing Works, near Hastings, ca 1893 and The first freezing works erected in Hawkes Bay, ca 1893]

Reference: PUBL-0140-1

Description: A factory chimney to the left, a railway line and carriages entering a large shed, with a two-storied factory building behind and trees in the background. On the right is a sheep or cattle pen Copied from an unknown original. Reproduced in Making New Zealand, Vol. 1 no. 12, p. 10, to illustrate an article on refrigeration. Compare PUBL-0140-2, a view of the same works from the opposite side Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of wood engraving