Joseph Meek - Papers relating to Levers Pacific Plantations Limited and related companies

PMB 1139

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441484

Microfilm : PMB 1139

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Joseph Meek was Chairman of Lever Bros Australia Ltd and Managing Director of Lever's Pacific Plantations Ltd., 1903-1924. An enthusiastic supporter of the copra industry in the Pacific, Meek purchased 51,000 acres of freehold land in the Solomon Islands for Lever's Pacific Plantations Ltd. from Captain O. Svenson in 1905 for copra growing

Correspondence with Lord Leverhulme, J.L. Tillotson, Charles Woodford and others and related papers, 1904-1927. Reports, 1897-1926, including Fulton & Greenhalgh's Reports on Island Properties and Trading Stations, 1902, and Captain Langdale's Report to the Pacific Islands Company on the "Rob Roy" Expedition to the Solomon Islands, 1900. Incorporation documents of Lever Bros Ltd, 1894, & Lever's Pacific Plantations Ltd, 1902. Financial records, Lever Bros Ltd Sydney, 1923-1924, Lever Bros Ltd, London 1925-27. Solomon Islands plantations, copra production, rainfall statistics & maps, 1905-26. Agreement & other legal documents re occupation & purchase of Solomon Islands lands, 1905 & artificial growing of pearls, 1924. Lindenhafen Estates, Suydney, reports, accounts & press cuttings, 1919-1927. Buka Plantations & Trading Co. Ltd., accounts, 1919-27. Planting Ltd, memorandum & articles of association, 1923 & accounts 1924-26. Photographs, illuminated addresses & publications

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1139
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Microfilm. Balgowlah : W.& F. Pascoe Pty Ltd for Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian National University : 1998. 4 microform reels : positive, 35 mm
Originals held by Lever Rexona Library, North Rocks, Sydney, Australia