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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Jameson Bros. and Co

Jameson Bros. and Co. (Joseph Jameson), Grocers, Wine and Spirit Merchants, and Coffee and Spice Manufacturers. Co-operative Stores, corner of Dixon and Willis Streets; Co-operative Stores and Atlas Coffee and Spice Works, corner of Buckle and Tory Streets, Wellington. Telephone 589. P.O. Box 255. Bankers, Union Bank of Australia. This large business was established in 1872, by Mr. William Jameson, brother of the present proprietor. Mr. Joseph Jameson, who was “born in Essex, had some six or seven years experience as a counter hand, in some of the best shops in the West End of London, and there he became thoroughly proficient in his knowledge of the grocery trade. Coming to Wellington in 1871, per ship “Wild Duck,” he joined his brother, three years later, in the present firm, which has from that time tanked as a prominent house in the trade in Wellington. The premises owned and occupied by Messrs. Jameson Bros. are located in important positions in the city, both being valuable corner sites. The Co-operative Stores at the corner of Upper Willis Street and Dixon Street are in a handsome two-storied wooden building, having a verandah on two sides extended across the footpath. Two spacious shop window fronts display samples of the large and attractive stock held by the firm. At the corner of Tory and Buckle Streets, the Atlas Coffee and Spice Works and Co-operative Stores are situated. These are also constructed of wood, being two stories in height, and having convenient verandahs on two sides. The total floorage space of the whole buildings need by the firm is about 25,000 square feet. Several years ago, Mr. Jameson imported from the well-known makers—Savage and Co., of London—a plant for coffee roasting and coffee and spice grinding, which is said to be one of the largest and most complete of its kind in the Colony. It has been erected at the Tory Street establishment, and includes one of the latest patterns of coffee roasters, capable of putting through a large quantity every hour, a fine steel coffee mill, a Chili mill, two vertical mills, a horizontal mill with French burr stones, for grinding spices, an edge runner mill with granite stones, and others. The motive power consists of two separate water engines which give seven-horse-power combined. The firm's trade mark, “Atlas Cofee and Spice Works,” is well known throughout the colony, as Messrs. Jameson Bros, and Co. dispose of large quantities of the produce of their work chiefly wholesale, through the merchants. The firm are direct importers of oils, general groceries, wines and spirits, etc., from the best markets of the world, and are in a position to supply goods of the first quality at the lowest possible figure.