National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand
Water Street, Dunedin | |
| Industry | Stock and station agency |
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| Founded | 1877 in London |
| Founders | George Gray Russell and John Macfarlane Ritchie |
| Defunct | merged 1972 NMA Wright Stephenson |
| Fate | merged with Wright Stephenson & Co in 1972 to form NMA Wright Stephenson |
| Headquarters | , England until 1969 then New Zealand |
Area served | New Zealand |
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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.
The business was founded in 1864 in Dunedin by G G Russell and that was taken over by the new London enterprise in 1878. 108 years after foundation NMA Wright Stephenson was formed by merging with competitor Wright Stephenson & Co in 1972.