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Kōrero: Large companies

David Nathan, merchant

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David Nathan, merchant

This 1848 advertisement by David Nathan announces a sale by auction of a consignment of goods that has arrived by ship at his Shortland Street sale rooms. He also advertises accommodation aboard the clipper brigantine John Bull sailing that same day for Tahiti. Among the goods to be auctioned are flour and butter from Van Diemens Land (Tasmania), tea, clothes and drapery.

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National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past

Reference: New Zealander, 8 January 1848, p. 1

Permission of the National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Gary Hawke, Large companies – Large companies in the 1800s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/25941/david-nathan-merchant (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Gary Hawke, i tāngia i te 2 March 2010.