page_title: Murray Roberts & Co
section_title: Merchandise
hierarchical_section_title: Murray Roberts & Co / Business / Merchandise
caption_attribution_description: English: Photographer: Robert Percy Moore Sheep dipping, Akitio Outstation, between 1923-1928 Panoramic negative Reference No. Pan-1620-F Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22850821 from the http://www.natlib.govt.nz
context_page_description: Murray Roberts & Co Limited owned a stock and station agency in New Zealand. For a time, it was New Zealand's largest wool exporter. Its business began in Green Island, Dunedin as a fellmongery owned by the Melbourne partners. Under direction of young John Roberts from 1867, it made very substantial investments in rural property in Otago and Hawke's Bay and spread as a stock and station agency through Otago and Southland and the lower half of the North Island.
  Ownership was transferred to a newly incorporated limited liability company in 1910. Until then it had been owned by a complicated network of partners with its core in Scotland, England, and Dunedin. Additional different subsidiary partnerships in different regions were set up to include local management.
  Murray Roberts & Co Limited was purchased in 1961 by another Dunedin-based business, London-listed company, National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand. Becoming fully integrated with the operations of National Mortgage it lost most of its separate identity in 1963 though some operations continued until 1965.
context_section_description: Merchandise traded by the company included liquor, ERG car batteries, and India tyres (from Scotland), wholesale grocery for clients and for retailers in large rural towns, and general farm requirements such as fencing wire and Coopers sheep dip.
caption: Dipping sheep
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