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New Zealand - House flags of shipping companies (G-I)

Gisborne Sheepfarmers' Freezing Co. Ltd.
The Golden Bay Cement Co. Ltd.
John Harrison
Hatrick Steamship Co.
Hawkes Bay Harbour Board
Holm Shipping Co.

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Gisborne Sheepfarmers' Freezing Co. Ltd.

image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010

Gisborne Sheepfarmers' Freezing Co. Ltd. Established in 1902 [sources give varying names but this is the one shown by the N.Z. companies register] their interests included shipowning until the last vessel was sold in 1955 with the company itself being struck off in 1996. The flag as shown by The Log 5/1997 and Sea Breezes 6/1979 was white with a red saltire and letters "GSFCo".
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010

The Golden Bay Cement Co. Ltd.

image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010

The Golden Bay Cement Co. Ltd. With origins back to the 1870s it became cement manufacture in 1908 and originally transported cement coastwise through Tarakohe Shipping Co. Ltd. but from c1980 the ships were operated in their own name. The yellow flag with a red diamond broken by a band of the field in which was the black legend "GOLDEN BAY" was sighted flown by their "Golden Bay" in 1987. The company had several changes in ownership with the last being the Fletcher Challenge Group in 1988 for whom it is still a part and still with its own ship operating.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010

John Harrison

image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010

John Harrison. Operated sawmills and had a fleet of tugs and sailing vessels and operated on the Wairau river and also trading Trans Tasman. The Log 5/1991 gives a blue squared pennant with the white letters "JH" whilst Sea Breezes 6/1979 shows a rectangular flag [see nz~h581.gif attached]. As this trading was done between about 1897 and 1908 it is apparently impossible now to say who is correct.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010

Hatrick Steamship Co.

image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010

Hatrick Steamship Co, Originated in 1889 by Alexander Hatrick for the inter-colonial trade, it later concentrated on the Wanganui River trade. Hatrick died in 1918 and the company continued under family control with youngest son Ronald later taking control and changing the name [probably 1928] to Wanganui River Services Ltd. which became a bus company after the river road was opened in 1934. The flag from The Log 11/1998 was blue with a red cross and the yellow letters "HSSCo".
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010

Hawkes Bay Harbour Board

image by Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010

Hawkes Bay Harbour Board. Originated in 1875 as the Napier Harbour Board changing name by at least 1931 and then in the 1989 privatisations became the Port of Napier Ltd. The Log 5/1986 gives a flag of green over blue separated by a narrow white horizontal band with overall an undefined white circle charged with a red ship's wheel.
Neale Rosanoski, 3 November 2010

Holm Shipping Company

image by Jonathan Dixon, 20 April 2005

At St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington, there is the unusual appearance of a house flag in a stained-glass window:
(From http://www.faithcentral.net.nz/inclass/music/stpauls/windows.htm [no longer active - ed])

In 1970, the Holm Window, over the three doors leading to the cathedral's refectory, was installed. Designed by Beverley Shore Bennett, a leading New Zealand stained-glass artist, and made by Roy Miller of Dunedin. St Paul, the patron saint of the cathedral, is shown in the centre at the top of the window; the stars of the Southern Cross and the Holm Shipping Company flag are at the top, left. The three ships represent stages in the development of the Company.

You get to see the window if you click on on the page mentioned above, a pop-up will appear.

This is an interesting page concerning this firm, mainly active in coastal shipping:
http://www.nzcoastalshipping.com/holm%20shipping%20co.html
Jan Mertens, 11 December 2004

[The flag has red in the first and fourth quarters, green in the second and third, separated by a white cross and with a white letter H in the canton.]

This Flickr photo (made by TELportfolio, uploaded on 17 December 2006) provides another picture of the flag
Jan Mertens, 22 June 2009

image by Neale Rosanoski, 18 August 2010

Holm Shipping Co. formed in 1926 with the last ship sold in 1981. It was for most of its existence a subsidiary of Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z. Ltd. but traded under its own colours right until the end. The flag proportions are different to those shown with a photo of an actual flag enclosed for comparison. There is a different version shown by Stewart 1963 and Sea Breezes 6/1979 in which the green quarters are replaced by red. This is entirely incorrect.
Neale Rosanoski, 18 August 2010

Postcard [o9oXXb] (6th pc., 3rd row, 2nd flag) shows for Holm & Co. Ltd. a red and green quartered flag with a white cross over all and a white "H" on the canton.
António Martins, 18 September 2006

Series continues: New Zealand shipping lines (J-L)