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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

The Northern Boot And Shoe Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

The Northern Boot And Shoe Manufacturing Company, Ltd., (Thomas Hodgsons, manager and secretary), 5 and 7 Hobson Street, Auckland. P.O. Box, 391. Telephone 82. Cable address, “Aurora. Code, A.B.C. Bankers, Bank of New Zealand. This company was established in 1882, with a nominal capital of £15,000, of which about £13,000 worth of shares have been allotted. The trade extends throughout the North Island and also into the South, and the company has been of late years a regular dividend paying concern. Three travellers are always “on the road,” and such goods as cannot at present be satisfactorily supplied by the local leather manufacturers are imported from the best markets of the Old World; all the specially selected leather being branded “Kromoletta” and “Northern Light.” The premises are freehold, of three stories, and of brick throughout. Though but half the ground is covered, the floorage space is about 17,000 square feet. The machinery, to which additions are being constantly made, is driven by a nine-horse-power Otto gas engine, and over eighty hands are constantly employed by the company, which obtained first award and gold medal at the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition of 1898–99, for ladies' and children's boots and shoes.