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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. Frank Jagger

Mr. Frank Jagger, Partner, is one of the best knownand most enterprising citizens in Auckland. He is a native of Halifax, Yorkshire, and arrived in Auckland, via Melbourne, in 1859. After a short stay in Auckland he proceeded to Coromandel, where he was engaged in bush contracts at the Matawai Creek. In 1864 Mr. Jagger entered into a contract to supply the Imperial troops at Tauranga with manuka firewood. After the war, he took charge of a coasting cutter, and in 1867, he and Mr. Parker commenced business at Freeman's Bay as coal and firewood merchants. Eventually this business was purchased by the New Zealand Timber Company, but Mr. Jagger retained the management, which he held until the formation of the Kauri Timber Company, about 1888, when the latter company absorbed the former. In the following year Mr. Jagger started the present tannery, which has grown to be one of the largest in the North Island. About 1897, he again embarked in the timber trade, and became a partner in the firm of E. Mitchelson and Co., Northern Wairoa and Kaipara. When the liquidation of the Northern New Zealand Woollen Mills Company took place, Mr. Jagger and several others formed a syadicate and purchased the property, which is now known as the Onehunga Woollen Mills. Since its reconstitution, the concern has proved the greatest success, the value of shares having increased seventy-five per cent. above par. Mr. Jagger is one of the promoters and directors of Murray's Pasteurised Milk Company and the Premier Timber Company; a director of the Northern Union Steamship Company, Hikurangi Coal Company. Mr. Jagger has never taken any special part in municipal or political life, but has given his time and business talents-to the commercial progress of Auckland.

Mr. F. Jagger.

Mr. F. Jagger.

Queen Street, Auckland.

Queen Street, Auckland.