In the 1840s, they founded another lucrative business enterprise when they opened the first commercial credit-rating service, the Mercantile Agency, a predecessor of Dun and Bradstreet.
12.
Henderson assisted in establishing the Bank of New Zealand, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, the New Zealand Insurance Company and the Auckland Gas Company.
13.
It came into existence after the anti-slavery leader, undertook the work, and established in New York, in 1841, the " Mercantile Agency ", the first organization of its kind.
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Becoming a part of the business community again he became involved with the Bank of New Zealand, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, the New Zealand Insurance Company, and related companies.
15.
Taylor died less than a year later, and his widow, Ellen Taylor, sold the house and most of its contents to Marshall D . Wilber, treasurer of the Wilber Mercantile Agency, in November 1912.
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Soon the smoke from extensive fires marked further Pakeha inroads into the native forests of the island . " His 90, 000 acre lease lasted until the early 1890s, when the NZ Loan and Mercantile Agency took it on.
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Hutton & Hockings had designed other buildings similar to the Walter Reid warehouse including the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency ( 1894 ), and the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company Building in Quay Street ( 1897 98 ).
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So a Wolfram Co-operative Association was formed to arrange advances and shipments through intermediaries such as the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency and WJ Lempriere and Co, but generally the local industry was poorly organised ( Kirkman 1982 : 189-190 ).
19.
In 1961 Dalgety & Co . Ltd merged with New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co . Ltd, and as Dalgety & New Zealand Loan Ltd, in 1964 built a new wool centre at Rocklea, selling the redundant Teneriffe No 3 woolstore to Queensland Primary Producers.
20.
In 1947 the building was purchased by the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co Ltd and in 1960 it was transferred to Mactaggarts Primary Producers Co-Op Association Ltd . The building is now occupied by accountants Evans & Hearn who purchased the building in 1975.
