THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE ARCHIVES

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1 THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE ARCHIVES NAME OF COLLECTION WENZ AND CO. ACCESSION NO CATEGORY ACTIVITY Business, organisations Merchants, Wool broker DATE RANGE SIZE OF COLLECTION HISTORICAL NOTE 14 Boxes, 2 Volumes Formed in Paris in 1859, this firm established an Australian branch in Sydney in 1878, and soon opened a Melbourne office, trading through agents in England, Germany, France and Italy. The firm liquidated, voluntarily, in ACCESS CONDITIONS DESCRIPTION Access: Open Correspondence and cables , ; accounts, including purchase books ; sales analyses LISTED BY Rosemary Arnold, Assistant Archivist DATE 09/03/1967

2 LIST GROUP 1. 1/1 OF RECORDS. CORRESPONDENCE~ Letterbooks. Box 1 1/1/1 Box 6 1/1/2 Box 6 1/1/3 Box 1 1/1/4 (including telegrams). Telegrams - Europe - Australia inwards and outwards. September 1883' January Letters and telegrams labelled "Reims 19/11/85". From Reims, Roubaix and London, to Melbourne and Sydney. January 1884 November Telegrams from Reims to Melbourne. September 1885 April M. Duval's letter book - to Wenz and Co., Sydney. (i.e. Mr. Learoyd, and Mr. T.A.J. Coate.) January 1921 January Volse 1/2 Box 1 1/2/1-1/2/4 Code books. 1/2/1 Private Telegraph Code No. 92. Boston. Mass. (Hallowell, Jones and Donald). Printed pp. attached at end re code changes. 1/2/2 Codes. Melbourne code names, abbreviations, and clients' names: indented alphabetical index. Undated. (black vol; 3 screws in binding). 1/2/3 Codes. Melbourne - code names, abbreviations, and clients' names. attached with code words commencing tfxh. Narrow green vol. 1/2/4 Adelaide Codes code names, abbreviations and clients' names. attached with code words commencing IfXtr. Narrow green vol. Box 2 1/2/5-1/2/7 1/2/5 Unit 15 (vol)o/s Code book places and number Samll black vol. alphabetical index taps. 1/2/6 Australia and La Plata includes and tllaines a carde". Black vol. (2 screws in binding). "Laines a peigne fl 1/2/7 Code Book - Districts and properties dated March 1905). Large vol. 1/2/8 Wenz & Company's Australian Wool Code. Large vol. Not boxed. Box 2 1/3/1-1/3/ Books containing lists of Stations and brand markings. 1/3/1 Brands A South Australia. (Very small memo. book). 1/3/2 Brand markings South Australia., (on inside front cover 8 Volse 1/3 WOOL.

3 1/3/3 Melbourne List Brands (eastern Austra1ia)e 1/3/4 Queensland Brands.. (at rear Itparticu1ars of Queensland Stations fl ).. 4 vo1se GROUP 2~ ACCOUNTS. 2/1 Ledger. September 1897 July vol. 2/2 Purchase Books. 2/2/1 Sydney ( s ) November February pa attached at front "List of purchases complete 15 January October February List attached at front (cover of book missing)e October March September February pe attached at front (ms.) October February (Sydney & New Zealand) September June (Sydney July June July May July June pp_ attached at end of book completing figures for l the season July June November June July June July June July June July June July June July June p. added, re lots cancelled July June p. at end re lots cancelled. Unit 16 (vol) July June Volse

4 2/2/2 Melbourne Purchases ( M )3 L, 19 August June August February August November July 16 October 1916, 9 December February February November Ju1y July vo1s. 2/2/3 Adelaide Purchases ( A ) September November July March vo1s.. 2/2/4 Purchase books (place not indicated) June June November June vo1se 2/3 Sales Ana1ysiso (Wool). Results of combing, washing, sorting - 2/3/1 London. ( WK ). taxes. (Prices in francs). 1~ vo1s.. 2/3/2 Australia to Riems, Roubaix, Paris, Leipzig, Bie11a January October November November November December December November November October NOTE: pp.20 and 21 contain sample translations from the French and German, made by Mr. JoD.E. Wischer of Wenz & Co. February November January February November vo1se

5 Book of Contracts (Sales). Giving brokers, descriptions of wool, deliveries. 9 September February vol. M 2/5 Yields. 2/5/1 Mr. Buchanan i s book H /5/2 Mr. Buchanan's book London /5/3 Mr. (Srou?. )' s book Vols.. GROUP 3. MISCELLANEOUS. Single sheets, taken from Account books, and found loose. 3/1 Newspaper cuttings From 2/2/1/4 3/1/1 3/1/2 3/2 Taken 3/2/1 3/2/2 3/3 From 3/3/1 3/3/2 nvictoria's Interest in the Riverina H Stating number of acres held by Victorian landowners in N.S.We 18 March "The Amalgamation with the Union Bank". Bank of South Australia taken over by Union Bank of South Australia. Undated probably early from 2/2/3/1. (c ). If List of Samples sent to G.B. & H.V.H Undated. Orders in Bentley's Code on Wenz~ & Co. letterhead. Undated. 2/6/2. "Proportions des qualites obtainues au triage des laines".. 14 May Note and figures - on Wenz & Co. letterhead "Striking example of the necessity of estimating top lots high and lower lots low" with five columns of figures. 13 September /4 Found loose. Purchases telegraphed up to 31 January pp. (3pp. air-weight, 1 bond).

6 3/5 Found Loose.. List of signatures of Company representatives 3/5/1 31 March sheet. 3/6/2 16 October sheet. 3/6 Found Loose Charts.. 3/6/1 Frozen and Chilled meat Chart of figures published by W. Wedde1 & Co., as a supplement to the Review of the Frozen Meat Trade for /6/2 Antwerp Wool Futures 'Printed by Lithographica Anvers. 1pe 9th March Rosemary Arnold, Assistant Archivist.