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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Wilkie and Co., Limited
Wilkie and Co., Limited , Wholesale and Retail Manufacturing Stationers, 92 Princes Street, Dunedin. This firm was founded by the late Mr. James Wilkie in the early seventies as booksellers and stationers, and began in premises situated in what was then known as the Princes Street Cutting. In 1885 it was decided to drop the bookselling department and take up the manufacture of stationery, for which purpose the firm took new premises at 92 Princes Street. These premises had to be enlarged at various times to accommodate the steadily increasing business, and in 1892 it was found necessary to secure new premises for the manufacturing departments. The factory is a large two-storey building opposite the Union Steamship Company's office, Water Street, with frontages also to Vogel and Cumberland Streets. The factory is replete with the very latest machinery in all the various branches, and the firm is well known throughout the colony for its high class lithographic work. From 1894 to 1902 the business was carried on under the same style, by Messrs W. G. Sommerville, P. L. Clarke, and T. Sommerville, and in 1902 the business was turned into a private Limited Liability Company, under the same management as formerly.