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 <BR> 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 <BR> Incorporation documents of Lever Bros Ltd, 1894, & Lever's Pacific Plantations Ltd, 1902 <BR> Financial records, Lever Bros Ltd, Sydney, 1923-1924, Lever Bros Ltd, London, 1925-27 <BR> Solomon Islands plantations, copra production, rainfall statistics and maps, 1905-1926 <BR> Agreements & other legal documents re occupation & purchase of Solomon Islands lands, 1905, & artificial growing of pearls, 1924 <BR> Lindenhafen Estates, Limited, Sydney, reports, accounts and press cuttings, 1919-1927 <BR> Buka Plantations & Trading Co Ltd, accounts, 1919-1927 <BR> Planting Limited, Memorandum & Articles of Association, 1923, & accounts, 1924-1926 <BR> Photographs, illuminated addresses and publications. <B><P>See reel list for further details</B>