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Sea transport was often the most comfortable means of access for passengers and the only practical outlet for produce, particularly wool, for remote properties. Surfboats would deliver cargoes to the beach and pick them up, wool would be unloaded from bullock wagons axle-deep in the water. Captain
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was formed. As a co-operative it seemed to have the advantage of locking in customers and might in that way take business from
Williams & Kettle. There were offers to merge put to each other by both parties before Williams & Kettle themselves incorporated a limited liability company to be
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F W Williams & Kettle advertised they were willing to make "liberal cash advances" on unshorn wool clips and other produce and undertake the entire range of station agency business. From Port
Ahuriri Kettle travelled up and down the East Coast making friends and finding clients. Investment
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The success of frozen meat exports boosted produce exports too. The far away
British and European markets for both wool and meat demanded long-distance shipping services. Well known to the big shipping companies, William Nelson and F W Williams eventually assisted in the formation of the Tyser
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F W Williams retired from the post of chairman, and left active management to
Nathaniel Kettle, at the end of the First World War but remained a Williams & Kettle director and chairman of Richardson & Co. Nathaniel Kettle handed over day-to-day top management to Leslie Rolls in 1933.
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propositions would be mailed to London investment houses which would reply by cable. Security documents could then be prepared and executed and lodged with a bank. The bank would cable confirmation and when the lender cabled back their consent the funds were advanced to the station owner.
302:(George Edward Gordon Richardson 1834–1905) in the 1860s. Naming themselves Richardson & Co they not only lightered cargoes to and from ships in the Napier roadstead but worked as many as 75 open landings on the East Coast as well as ports from Auckland to Lyttelton.
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business and a general merchants business with branches throughout the east coast of the North Island of New
Zealand. Incorporated as a co-operative in 1891, it had been founded in 1885 by landowner and businessman
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F W Williams and Kettle remained a private partnership until 1891. There were advantages in being a locally owned business competing with branches run from other parts of the country but in 1891
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Tyser Line —> Commonwealth and
Dominion Line —> Cunard Line Australasian Service, Commonwealth and Dominion Line —> Port Line —> Associated Container Transportation
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worked as a co-operative aiming to at least retain their existing customers. The
Williams & Kettle co-operative took from the partnership as of 1 July 1891:
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The founders survived until 1940 but the other directors listed above, except for
Harding, all died between 1927 and 1932.
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The sale gave the two partners more than a small fortune in saleable shares in the new
Williams & Kettle Limited.
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Williams & Kettle became a major shareholder. They sold the bulk of their shareholding in
Richardson & Co to
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Williams had set himself up in his own custom house agency in 1880 after forming a good relationship with
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and Nathaniel Kettle the board of directors was a list of prominent regional run-holders. They were:
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The Williams & Kettle brand began leaving buildings, vehicles and staff uniforms in late 2008.
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The Cyclopaedia of New Zealand (Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts), 1908
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their business premises and plant at Napier, Hastings, Spit and Gisborne and
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in 1934. Long before that, in 1908, some of their shares were sold to
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in a flooded creek is almost hidden by the horses on the creek's bank
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Throughout the East Coast, the story of Williams and Kettle Limited
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when it was sold to W & R Fletcher, the local subsidiary of
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In 1966 Richardson and Co's fleet was six modern motor vessels
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John Campbell went into business with Napier shipping agent
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New Zealand stock & station agency and general merchants
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Dunedin-born Kettle, having served an apprenticeship with
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Agriculture companies disestablished in the 21st century
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in early 2005 following their bidding war with rivals
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Agriculture companies established in the 19th century
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126:North Island East Coast — Poverty Bay and more
199:and his wife, Lena, was the only daughter of
40:Stock & Station Agency, General Merchants
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661:, Pictorial Publications, Hastings NZ, 1974
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693:, volume xxix, issue 4019, 31 July 1885
861:New Zealand stock and station agencies
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184:in conjunction with Frederic's uncle,
871:2005 disestablishments in New Zealand
370:Hawke's Bay Farmers Co-op Association
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152:(1854–1940), a brother-in-law of
881:Companies disestablished in 2005
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112:Wilket House, Shakespeare Road,
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242:Homeboats and Little Boats
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415:Rechab Harding (1844–1897)
866:Companies based in Napier
813:Williams & Kettle Ltd
418:A S G Carlyon (1859–1927)
355:Thomas Borthwick and Sons
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674:Obituary, Mr N Kettle.
439:L H McHardy (1863–1927)
406:J H Coleman (1834–1928)
162:Murray Roberts & Co
156:the local principal of
50:; 133 years ago
786:"Sportsman legislator"
735:Shipping—Coastal Lines
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840:End for Rural Brand.
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78:1 June 2005
32:Public listed company
818:accessed 27 May 2017
482:Stortford Lodge 1902
193:G G Russell & Co
762:1 June 1887, page 2
596:Pyne Gould Guinness
582:Bought by Wrightson
526:Waipawa branch 1915
453:Sir William Russell
428:Sir William Russell
300:G. E. G. Richardson
267:Shipping wool from
259:Richardson & Co
137:Napier, New Zealand
114:Napier, New Zealand
61:Napier, New Zealand
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842:New Zealand Herald
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689:Nathaniel Kettle.
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705:Hawkes Bay Herald
691:North Otago Times
572:Fuel distribution
506:Tokomaru Bay 1963
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108:Headquarters
29:Company type
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798:17 December
563:Real estate
436:(1871–1938)
430:(1838–1913)
424:(1859–1931)
412:(1843–1932)
322:Pacific War
231:Port Napier
122:Area served
855:Categories
634:References
546:Fertilizer
509:Taupo 1966
494:Tolaga Bay
164:employee.
139:, owned a
82:2005-06-01
55:1891-05-21
588:Wrightson
577:Ownership
569:Insurance
534:Livestock
459:Locations
394:Directors
269:Te Araroa
253:Port Line
246:Port Line
98:Successor
592:Fonterra
560:Forestry
514:Services
464:The Spit
400:Williams
238:Shipping
182:Hastings
67:Founders
37:Industry
273:lighter
158:Dunedin
80: (
75:Defunct
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45:Founded
467:Napier
341:Ripple
317:Kopara
218:Growth
24:158523
614:Notes
333:Fanny
800:2020
594:and
537:Wool
339:and
337:Weka
331:and
329:Kahu
294:1930
288:Kahu
90:Fate
59:in
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