Insurance company formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1869. Branch office opened in Wellington, New Zealand, May 1880. Demutualised in 1995 and became part of the AXA group. Today (2011) is a subsiduary of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd.
National Mutual (Firm)
Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 : Queen Street, Auckland
Date: 1898
By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916
Reference: PA7-49-18
Description: View looking up Queen Street from near the premises of John Reid & Co (on left) and National Mutual Building. Photograph taken by Josiah Martin in 1898. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 29.8 x 24.4 cm
Buildings in Wellington and Auckland
Date: 1965-1974
From: Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd :Photographs relating to New Zealand architectural projects
Reference: PAColl-9842-07
Description: Buildings designed by Stephenson and Turner in Wellington and Auckland. These include - New Zealand Wool Board building, Customhouse Quay, Wellington, 1980-1983. Site photographs relating to a project for National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Ltd (NMLA), Grant Road, Wellington. NMLA building 141 Manners Street, Wellington, December 1973-December 1975. Office building for New Zealand Fibremakers Ltd, Wiri, Auckland, ca 1960s. Photographs relating to slip damage to access to a house off Tinakoti Road, Thorndon, Wellington, for New Zealand Red Cross Society, 1973-1974. Architects drawing of offices designed for NMLA Takapuna, Auckland, and dated January 1965. Site for Norwich Union building, Wellington, completed ca 1983. Interior of banking chamber, National Bank of New Zealand, Auckland, December 1979. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). 22 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd, Wellington, in 2011
Creator unknown :Photographs of Wellington and Hunterville
Date: 1885-1900
Reference: PAColl-1942
Description: Wellington streets, dwellings, historic buildings, harbour, ships, wharves and tax department staff 1900 Hunterville main street and unidentified church Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s) loose album pages.
[Posters advertising exhibitions of graphic arts and two-dimensional artworks. 1988]
Date: 1988
Reference: Eph-C-GRAPHIC-ARTS-1988
Description: Includes: Edward Bullmore 1933-1978. "One decade on"; an exhibition of key works for the Bullmore Collection. The Bath-House, Rotorua's Art & History Museum, 15 November 1988- 8 February 1989 (Shows "Self portrait" (The seer) 1959) Jenny Dolezel. "The circus of life". Exhibition. Brooke / Gifford Gallery, 112 Manchester St, Christchurch, opening Monday May 30 [1988?] The Florilegium; an exhibition of New Zealand botanical illustrations collected for Joseph Banks esq during a voyage around the world ... Hocken Library, 29 September - 5 December 1988. Wairarapa paintings by Gary Freemantle at Janne Land Gallery, 9-20 August [1988?] Geometric, abstract and Minimalist painting at the Hocken (Shows Gordon Walters untitled drawing 1975). Hocken Library University of Otago, 18 August - 26 September [1988] "Vanguard"; paintings by B Hill & J Jane. Turnbull House, Sept 18-24 [ca 1988-1996?] Louise Beale Gallery. Gerda Leenards drawings prints & paintings. Exhibition on Monday October 3 1988, closes October 14. 147 Cuba Str, Wellington (2 copies) "Ms Anonymous" ... works from the collection by anonymous artists. Hocken Library, University of Otago, 5 February - 21 March 1988. The National Mutual art exhibition; landscape paintings, Oct-Nov 1988 (Shows "Clouds over Ngauruhoe" by John Coulson and "King Crimson" by Lindsey Kirk). Touring: Wellington National Mutual Head Office 12-21 October 1988; Christchurch Park Royal Hotel "Atrium" 25-29 October 1988; Auckland National Mutual Centre 9-18 November 1988 (2 copies) "One before breakfast ..."; Nairn, Nerli & Van der Velden. Hocken Library University of Otago, 30 June - 15 August 1988. Rob Taylor, 21 anniversary exhibition. Louise Beale Gallery, july 1988 (Gallery newsletter, July-August 1988) Quantity: 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, on sheets, sizes varying around 430 x 300 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources
Various buildings
Date: [ca 1952-1968]
From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs
Reference: PAColl-9938-33
Description: Includes - Three interior views of the Royal Oak Hotel, Wellington, 1950s. Takaka Post Office, 1900. Site of New Zealand Post Office Store and Workshop, Taita, October 1963, and building under construction. National Mutual Life Association (NMLU) building, Featherston/Panama streets, Wellington, 1963. Bowen State Buildings and Broadcasting House, Bowen Street, Wellington, ca 1963. Investment House, Whitmore Street, Wellington, site and completed building, ca 1962 and ca 1968. ANZ Bank Building, Cuba street, 1950s. Interiors and exterior of pre-built show house. ANZ Bank, Otaki. East Court Motel, ca 1958. ANZ Bank, Kawerau, ca 1958. Exterior views of De Berry house, Waikanae, ca 1952. Interior views, Hogg House, Karori. Exterior view of Oldfield House, 1 Fancourt Street, Karori, 1960. Sitting room interior, Evans Park Court Flats, 29 wellington Road, Kilbirnie, ca 1960s. Architects drawing of Christ Church, Taita. Church of Christ the King, Cannon's Creek, Porirua, 1960s. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 photocopy/ies.
Queen Street, Auckland
Date: ca 1900
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16
Reference: PAColl-7344-64
Description: View of Queen Street looking towards the harbour with on the right the shops of G Canning, confectioner, and G T Chapman, bookseller and stationer, and further down the street the National Mutual Life Assurance Office. There is a drapers cart with the name R Gray outside the confectioners. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Bailey, Margaret and John (Collectors) :[Bank and investment statements on letterhead p...
Date: 1980 - 2005
Reference: Eph-B-FINANCE-Bailey-1980/2005
Description: Includes bank and investment statements issued by:: Broadbank 1985-1986 Colonial First State Investments 1999 Countrywide Funds Management 1997 Contact Energy Ltd 2004 Joseph Banks Trusts Ltd 1996-1997 Nathan Funds Management Ltd 1990 National Australia Bank (NZ) 1988-1989 National Bank Financial Services 1997-1998 National Mutual Assets Management (New Zealand) Ltd 1996-1999 National Mutual Holdings Ltd 1996-1997 New Zealand Funds Management Ltd 1992-1995 Norwich Union Investments (NZ) Ltd 1996-1998 Strategic Finance Ltd 2003-2005 Tower Trust Services Ltd 1997-1999 Westpac Unit Investments (NZ) Ltd 1997-1999 Statements are sorted alphabetically by company within the folder. Please keep in order. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript and offset prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.
[New Zealand ephemera of octavo size, relating to insurance companies, insurance cover,...
Date: 1960-1969
From: [New Zealand ephemera of octavo size, relating to insurance companies, insurance cover, insuring of property, travel and accident insurance]
Reference: Eph-A-INSURANCE-1960s
Description: Not fully listed. Includes pamphlets and booklets issued by: A.M.P. National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Limited New Zealand Government Life Insurance New Zealand Government Life Endowment Assurance N.I.M.U. Noble Lowndes (N.Z.) Limited Stone & Cox. Australasian Ordinary Branch Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 240 mm.
Diary used by Arthur Seed, insurance agent
Date: 1902
From: Connell, Marjorie Bertha, 1907-1995 : Seed family papers
Reference: 88-051-03
Description: Other - Insurance policies and photographs inserted in diary removed to 88-051-03A Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Correspondence (N-R)
Date: [1933-1977]
From: Glover, Denis James Matthews, 1912-1980 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0418-042
Description: Includes correspondence and poems from Winston Rhodes; poem, `Letter to Karl Stead' by Alan Roddick (1970); copy of article by J B Priestley on his visit to New Zealand (Observer magazine, 9 Sep 1973); letter from Tilly, Wellington, re Poetry Society letterhead; interview of Glover by Michael Player (1973); correspondence with HMNZS Pegasus group including letter signed by 17 members (1956); sonnet by Willie Patterson; poems by Rhys Pasley; letter from Paekakariki Old Folks Association, asking Glover for a rhyme to be sung to the tune of `Here we are again' (1964); letter from [?] R O'Neill of Lower Hutt. Identified persons entered under Name. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for full description of the contents of this folder.
Insurance policies and related material
Date: 1902
From: Connell, Marjorie Bertha, 1907-1995 : Seed family papers
Reference: 88-051-03A
Description: Policies relating to William Harold Gittos, engineer of Greymouth; James Peter Adamson, schoolboy of Donaghues, Ross, Westland; William Moran, butcher of Wellington; Richard Edmond Walshe, miner of Burnett's Face, Denniston; newspaper cuttings; unidentified sepia photos of a man fly fishing. Other - Insurance policies and photographs removed from diary at 88-051-03 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers - National Mutual
Date: 1936-1965
From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster collection and papers / of Kenneth Athol Webster
Reference: MS-Papers-1009-1/1/188
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Correspondence - Kemp-National Party
Date: 1939-1940
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-206
Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers relating to Mutual Life Assocation of Australasia and related material
Date: 1897, 1899, 1903-1904
From: Connell, Marjorie Bertha, 1907-1995 : Seed family papers
Reference: 88-051-02
Description: Contains Australian Mutual Provident Society 54th & 55th Annual reports, 1903 & 1904; financial comparsion of M.L.A & A.M.P. as at end of 1899; MLA Annual Report and Proceedings, 1903; insurance papers re Arthur George Collins, farmer of Kairanga (1903); `MLA Chronicle', 1904 issues; `Business' (monthly journal of business methods & management), published Manchester, 1904; MLA Annual report, 1904; letter to Arthur Seed, Palmerston North from MLA secretary, Dec 1903 Arthur Seed's appointment certificate to Wellington office, Feb 1897 Other - Loose pages containing diaries entries Mar-Jul 1899 removed to 88-051-02A Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Correspondence relating to farming
Date: 1922-1944
From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers
Reference: 73-128-135
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes papers relating to Wilmshurst v Field case with Atmore presiding; share milking agreement between Field and Frank Gore; pay sheets for various workers; appeal for Cairns-Cowan to be excused war service; list of stock sold (1943); and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Accounts and correspondence
Date: [1935-1936]
From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers
Reference: 73-128-245
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; includes many notes by Field on financial matters; and receipts etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Siegfried Eichelbaum
Date: 1936
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8643-31
Description: Letters, cards and financial papers to Siegfried Eichelbaum. Not all correspondents indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Evening Post: Evening Post 1900 almanac. 1900
Date: 1900
By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014
Reference: Eph-D-CALENDAR-1900-01
Description: Arrangement of text, giving historic events to be remembered on each day of the month. The text of the sheet contains columns and boxes of advertisements for insurance companies, estate agents, liquor retailers, and other merchants. J Campbell is possibly John Campbell 1857-1942. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress 510 x 772 mm.
Stairwell inside the Hotel Cecil, Wellington
Date: [ca 1945]
From: Bennie, M (Mr), fl 1983 :Photographs of Wellington businesses and homes
Reference: 1/2-139930-F
Description: Stairwell inside the Hotel Cecil, Wellington, circa 1945. Signs advertise the North British Mercantile Insurance Co, National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Ltd and Norwich & London Accident Insurance Association. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).