Shipping Papers, Williams and Kettle Limited

Maker
Williams & Kettle Ltd
Production date
1884-1890
Current rights
All Rights Reserved

Object detail

Brief Description
Shipping Papers relating to Williams and Kettle Limited:

1. Letter from National Mortgage Agency Company of New Zealand, Dunedin to Nat Kettle, dated 29 June 1891. The letter concerns Kettle's investment in the new company under his name, shipping, and Shaw, Savill and Albion Company Limited.

2. Account of produce shipped by Williams and Kettle Limited during the 1887 - 1888 season. Details the accounts, the bales of wool, skins, casks of tallow and casks of pelts shipped. Handwritten.

3. Account for sales of 135 bales of wool exported from Canterbury at Napier, 11 July 1890. Sold by Williams and Kettle Limited for Messrs Murray Roberts and Company.

4. Letters between Murray, Roberts and Company and Nelson Brothers Limited, dated 10 and 11 December 1890. The letters concern shipments and payments of wool and cattle products, lighterage contract.

5. Copy of letter from London to Nelson Brothers, dated 21 May 1885. The letter concerns Refrigerating Co-operation Conference in Christchurch and the storage and sale of frozen meat in London.

6. Printed document, Review of the frozen meat trade, 1890, by W Weddel and Company, Colonial Commission Agents, 16 St Helen's Place, London, (associated with A S Paterson and Company, Dunedin and Wellington), dated 27 December 1890. Contains figures and comparisons with years from 1880.

7. Printed document, The New Zealand Refrigerating Company Limited, Fourth Annual Report, 8 July 1885. Annual report and balances. Two copies.

8. Notice from B H Martindale, General Manager of London and St Katherine Docks Company, dated 15 October 1884. The notice concerns refrigerated meat charges applying to New Zealand and Australian Mutton and Lamb. Also charges concerning meat from all ports.

9. Copy of Ships' Reports from London, 26 January 1887. The report concerns the Resolution passed by the Colonial Wool Merchants' Association, 17 November 1881.

10. Miscellaneous, undated handwritten papers, labelled as: Working expenses for main depot and three branches. Account details are given under the following headings: Cold Transport; Cost of making ice; Per Annum; Branch Report; Cold Storage Income on delivery in Sydney; Transport Service; Riverina (ship?); Cost of transporting dressed meat.

11. Document, Schedule of Railway Carriage on Frozen Meat in the South Island, Christchurch, 8 January 1890. Notes on mileage and tonnage. Handwritten.

12. Page 1060 from publication, Fairplay, dated 25 May 1888. Report on Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, Limited. Balance Sheet, 31 December 1887.
Production date
1884-1890
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and blue ink printed and handwritten on paper. Red ink printed on paper.
Measurements
Height x Width: 330 x 210mm
Subject date
1884-1890
Credit line
gifted by Williams & Kettle Ltd
Other number(s)
m2007/86, 58565

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