299
Gold Mining Company Documents
Starting Bid: $100
Estimate:
$200 - $300
Ended
Timed Auction
191 The Collection of John Elliot Lawford | Part 2: Online Auction (lot 95-432)
Category
Description
Gold Mining Company Documents
Include - 1. The Waitekauri Gold Mining Company Limited
Three reports - Two Reports of the Directors and Statement of accounts 1902 & 1904 and Proceedings at the Ordinary General Meeting 1902.
Gold was discovered here in 1875 by Daniel Leahy (Simpson, 2011). Located immediately west of the old Waitekauri claim. In 1888, the lease was taken over by E. Kersey Cooper, representing an English syndicate. It proved unpayable, and work was suspended. In 1891, work resumed, and an adit was driven, however a dispute arose over who owned the claim. Kersey Cooper won this fight, raised more finance, and continued to drive the adit until work stopped again in 1902. Operations re-started in 1904 but ceased permanently in 1912.
2. Silver gelatin photograph - Tapu Creek, Thames Goldfield. Image of the creek with a goldminer’s cottage. 190 x 290mm. Another image of the creek verso.
3. New Whau Gold Mining Company [Thames] 1902 call of one halfpenny per share with letter of explanation for the Call.
4. Memorandum and Articles of Association of Talisman Consolidated Limited [1916] loosely inserted single leaf re the winding up of the company. Auckland 1921.
5. The Komata Reefs Gold Mining Company Ltd - Crushing returns for 1904.
Provenance: Estate of Peter Stratford.
Include - 1. The Waitekauri Gold Mining Company Limited
Three reports - Two Reports of the Directors and Statement of accounts 1902 & 1904 and Proceedings at the Ordinary General Meeting 1902.
Gold was discovered here in 1875 by Daniel Leahy (Simpson, 2011). Located immediately west of the old Waitekauri claim. In 1888, the lease was taken over by E. Kersey Cooper, representing an English syndicate. It proved unpayable, and work was suspended. In 1891, work resumed, and an adit was driven, however a dispute arose over who owned the claim. Kersey Cooper won this fight, raised more finance, and continued to drive the adit until work stopped again in 1902. Operations re-started in 1904 but ceased permanently in 1912.
2. Silver gelatin photograph - Tapu Creek, Thames Goldfield. Image of the creek with a goldminer’s cottage. 190 x 290mm. Another image of the creek verso.
3. New Whau Gold Mining Company [Thames] 1902 call of one halfpenny per share with letter of explanation for the Call.
4. Memorandum and Articles of Association of Talisman Consolidated Limited [1916] loosely inserted single leaf re the winding up of the company. Auckland 1921.
5. The Komata Reefs Gold Mining Company Ltd - Crushing returns for 1904.
Provenance: Estate of Peter Stratford.
