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New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company provided investments and loans for trade and commerce in New Zealand and Australia.[1]

Notable people

  • James Beard, the 1889 New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Building architect
  • John Logan Campbell, director[2]
  • Josiah Firth, with Thomas Russell embarked on a series of large banking and company promotions[3]
  • Henry Goulstone, colonial accountant[4]
  • Thomas Henderson, helped establish the company[5]
  • Thomas Russell, company founder and Minister of Colonial Defence[6]
  • James Williamson, company founder and director[7]

Location of former offices

England Australia New Zealand

  • 1, Queen Victoria Street, Mansion House, London
  • Eagle Street, Brisbane, Queensland
  • Rockhampton, Queensland
  • 538 Collins Street (1883) and King Street(1909), Melbourne, Victoria[8]
  • Corner of Fryatt and Thomas Burns Streets, Dunedin[9]
  • Durham Street, Sydenham, Christchurch

Timeline

Dalgety went on to be replaced by the contemporary PGG Wrightson

  • 1865 – Incorporated in England.
  • 1874 – Started business in some Australia States
  • 1881 – Net Profit £6154
  • 1889 – The Australian business formed their own board. Offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Rockhampton
  • 1893–95: The Bank of New Zealand, the Colonial Bank of New Zealand and New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company were involved with a financial crisis causing a national slowdown in private investment.
  • 1894 – Company reconstructed.
  • 1952 – Became NZL Properties (Australia) Pty Ltd
  • 1961 – Merged with Dalgety & New Zealand Loan Ltd

Gallery

References

  1. Archive Research Consultancy. New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co Guide to Australian Business Records, 2005, retrieved 6 January 2014^
  2. {{DNZB|Stone|R. C. J.|1c3|Campbell, John Logan – Biography|31 March 2012}}^
  3. {{DNZB|Waterson|D. B.|1F7|Firth, Josiah Clifton – Biography|31 March 2012}}^
  4. Cyclopedia Company Limited. The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Auckland Provincial District The Cyclopedia of New Zealand, 1902, retrieved 31 March 2012^
  5. Cyclopedia Company Limited. The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Auckland Provincial District 1902, retrieved 31 March 2012^
  6. Stone, R. C. J. Russell, Thomas 1830 – 1904 Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, 1990^
  7. {{DNZB|Stone|R. C. J. |1w27|Williamson, James – Biography|31 March 2012}}^
  8. New Zealand Loan Mercantile Agency (Former), Australian National Trust Register^
  9. {{NZHPT|4755}}^