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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Robinson, T., and Co

Robinson, T., and Co. (James Frederick Peake), Agricultural Implement Importers and Manufacturers. Princes Street South, Dunedin. Telephone, 93. Post Office Box, 62. Bankers: Bank of Australasia. Private residence, Leith Street. This business was established in 1863, as a branch of the Melbourne house. Mr. Peake, who became a partner in the original firm in 1872, has conducted the business on his own account since 1885 under the old style. The premises consist of two storey brick and stone buildings—with large sheds at the back—erected on leasehold land, and contain upwards of 10,000 square feet of floor space, where all goods are carefully kept under cover. Messrs. Robinson and Co. are importers of all descriptions of agricultural implements and machinery, harvesting tools, and general farm sundries. They are agents for Bamlett's celebrated reapers, J. and T. Hornsby's ploughs, Johnson and Field's winnowing and seed-drilling machines, and Osborne's reapers and binders; they also act for leading Melbourne makers, including the firm of Messrs. T. Robinson and Co, of that city, and for Mr. Thomas Corbett, of Shrewsbury, England. As manufacturers, they make hillside ploughs, turnip-sowers, and chaff-cutters. Messrs. Robinson and Co. have a well-earned reputation for keeping a full assortment of fittings for all machines in which they deal, to the manifest advantage of their customers. Mr. Peake was born at Honiton, Devonshire, England, in 1844, and was educated chiefly at the Scotch College, Melbourne. Having joined the Melbourne firm, he came to Dunedin in 1866, and subsequently acquired an interest in the New Zealand business, of which he is now the proprietor. As a Freemason, Mr. Peake is attached to Lodge Dunedin, and is a past master of that lodge; he is also a past principal of the chapter of Otago, and past grand senior warden of the Dunedin Grand Lodge, E.C. He was married in 1872 to a daughter of Mr. J. W. Jago, and has three sons and four daughters.