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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Niccol, George Turnbull

Niccol, George Turnbull, Shipowner and Shipbuilder, Customs Street West, Auckland. Telephone 1117; P.O. Box 353. Bankers, Bank of New South Wales. Established in 1842. Private address, “Cheltenham,” Beach Road. Mr. Niccol, who is a son of the late Mr. Henry Niccol, one of the early pioneers who arrived in the colony in the forties, and was well known in connection with the early shipping trade of Auckland, was born in Auckland, in 1860. After a short experience of office life, he joined his father, who was largely engaged in the shipbuilding trade. When his father died, he took sole charge of the business, which is now one of the largest of its kind in Auckland. The Devonport branch, where the shipbuilding was formerly carried on, is now closed, and the whole business is conducted in Auckland. Mr. Niccol is the owner of a large fleet of vessels, all busily employed in the intercolonial and coastal coal and timber trade. He holds a very large stock of every article required in connection with shipping—sails, spars and other ship furniture, and employs altogether about eighty men. The following are some of the vessels owned by Mr Niccol and engaged in the intercolonial trade:—The barques “Empreza,” “Alcestis,” “Neptune,” “Woosong,” “Vision” and the ship “Republic,” a vessel of 1400 tons. Owing to the calls on his time in connection with his extensive business, Mr. Niccol has not yet taken any part in public life, but he is a man who would acquit himself well in that sphere, if he entered it.