Murray Roberts & Co
| Company type | private company |
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| Industry | Stock and station agency |
| Founded | 1867 in Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Founder | John Roberts |
| Defunct | 30 June 1961 |
| Fate | Purchased by National Mortgage & Agency Company |
| Headquarters | , New Zealand |
Area served | New Zealand, excluding Canterbury and the upperNorth Island |
Key people | John Roberts, Alfred Henry Miles |
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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 was purchased in 1961 by another Dunedin-based business, National Mortgage & Agency Company. Becoming fully integrated with the operations of National Mortgage it lost most of its separate identity in 1963 though some operations continued until 1965.