National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand
National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand Limited owned a nationwide stock and station agency business originally intended to invest directly in New Zealand pastoral activities and lend to other participants in that industry. By the 1960s as well as the export of wool and meat and dealing in livestock it provided grain and seed merchandising, wholesale grocery services including wines and spirits and arrangement of property and other real estate sales.
Water Street, Dunedin
Stock and station agencies are businesses which provide a support service to the agricultural community. Their staff who deal with clients are known as stock and station agents. They advise and represent farmers and graziers in business transactions that involve livestock, wool, fertiliser, rural property and equipment and merchandise on behalf of their clients. The number and importance of these businesses fell in the late 20th century.
Longridge Settlement – inspecting sheep. Archives New Zealand. A stock-agent assessing his client's livestock
The stock agent's car, of the make that his firm sold and with a radio for catching up-to-date stock prices, was always new, and freshly washed in the morning
