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Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
- Date
- 1878-1981
- By
- Gear Meat Company LtdPetone (Lower Hutt, N.Z.). Borough Council
- Reference
- 81-295
- Description
Records include ledgers, staff records, cash books, letter books (1900-1910), various documents (letters, insurance policies, reminiscences, deeds, and mortgages), Board of Directors' records (1962-1975), records of subsidiary and related companies, legal correspondence, killing records, newspaper clippings (1907-1969), share registers and share records (including indexes), and records of the Fellmongery Department (including staff, stock and cash)
Source of title - Supplied title
Relationship complexity - See also 78-047, 87-080, 91-256
Petone meat processing plant
Quantity: 7 folder(s). 118 volume(s). 47 box(es). 15 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter
Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.
Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plans - To Ephemera Collection - 1 box - To Photographic Archive - 3 boxes - To Serials Collection - MIRINZ bulletin (refrigeration) No 2, 1974; Thomson news No 4 May 1972 - To Book Collections - Associated North Island freezing companies of NZ. General report, 1912; Petone Borough Council dairy regulation by-law, 1911; Petone Borough Council heavy traffic by-law, 1905; Petone Borough Council waterworks by-law, 1904; Petone Borough Council drainage & sanitary by-law, 1911.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 7 folder(s), 118 volume(s), 47 box(es), 15 Linear Metres, Account books, Cashbooks, Letterbooks, Clippings, Registers (Lists), Business correspondence, Manuscripts, Mss, typescripts, printed matter
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Copyright
Unknown
ABBO work
Date: 1947-1953
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Reference: MSY-7815
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Historical documents (1-10)
Date: 1881-1901
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Reference: 81-295-38
Description: Correspondence, cadastral maps, share certificates, legal documents, etc., Includes Memorandum of transfer - Tariwha Te Wheoki and Maaka Pukehi as trustee of Hare Wirikake Te Whare as sucessors to Hare Wirikake deceased re land at Otaki (Ngakaroro No 2F Section 60) to James Gear, butcher and Isabella Ling, widow, 1885 Quantity: 1 box(es) hollinger (10 folders).
Civic & Civic Pty Limited - Proposed meat processing works for Gear Central North Islan...
Date: 1973
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Reference: 81-295-37/06
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Gear Island - Cadastral map
Date: [19--]
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Reference: 81-295-36/09
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
J G Castle, Manager of Meat Preserving Department - Diary
Date: 1903-1907
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Reference: 81-295-33/09
Description: Diary of meat preservation practices to overseas meat works; 1903 at the front of the book to places in the Pacific and America and 1907 at the back of the book to places in Australia Quantity: 1 volume(s).
In Gear (Newsletter); correspondence re Gear Island
Date: 1969-1971, 1976
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Reference: 81-295-33/03
Description: Copies of the Gear Meat Company newsletter `In Gear', 1969-1971; newspaper clipping and notes written by Martin Nestor re the naming of Gear Island, 1976 (includes sketch plan of the area?) Other Titles - In Gear (Newsletter) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Plans and legal documents
Date: 1880-1939
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Reference: AI-81-295-2
Description: Includes: Architectural plan for Gear Plant at Petone, undated; Petone site plan and letter, 1907; advertising poster, undated; Map showing erosion of the Hutt River bank, survey made by Leslie H Reynolds, in connection with report to Petone Borough Council, 14 Jun 1907; Memorandum of lease, 1905; Memorandum of agreement with Minister of Railways (includes sketch map), 1913; Combined Buyers Ltd share certificate, 1916; Agreement with Shaw Savill & Albion Company Ltd, 1888; Memorandum of grant with Colgate Palmolive Proprietory Ltd, 1939; London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Company Ltd policy, 1913; Gear Meat Company share certificate, 1882; printed minutes of Conference of Freezing Companies held at Wellington, 7-8 Apr 1891; Wellington Harbour Board deed, 1885; Hutt Park Railway Company, 1885; Resolution of Petone Borough Council re establishment of the Gear Meat Company, 1880; Deed of Trust - Gear Meat Company and Public Trustee, 3 Apr 1884; Deed made between Apihaka Renata of Wellington and Komene of Taranaki (lessors) and James Gear of Wellington, butcher for 4 acres of land at the Hutt, May 1881 or Dec 1882?; Memo of agreement between Gear Meat Company and Messrs Levin & Co, agents for Shaw Savill & Albion Co Ltd re carrying of frozen meat and dairy produce to London by `Lady Jocelyn', Aug 1883; plan of Gear Meat Company works, 1897; advertising poster re subdivision of Gear's Estate, Te Horo, to be sold by auction , 6 Sep [19--]; Hutt River Board scheme for subdivision of Gear Island showing proposed water and existing railway approaches, 21 Jul 1908; Plan of Section 4, Block XIII, Belmont. Freehold sections at Petone (included Mayfield Tce and Campbell Tce and bounded by Petone Ave); brown packing paper (?) labelled `Bone in veal, product of New Zealand', undated Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Fellmongery Department - Wages sheet
Date: Jan-Sep 1941
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Reference: 81-295-Q0884
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Stock book
Date: 1883-1889
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Reference: 81-295-02/4
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Ledger
Date: 1881-1892
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Reference: 81-295-32/01
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).