Hi Robin Re your message Message: 1 Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:44:34 +0100 From: "Robin's wool" <[email protected]> Subject: [TSL] Union Steam Ship Co of New Zealand and the response from Derek Hayward Message: 2 Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 11:33:07 +0000 (GMT) From: derek hayward <[email protected]> Subject: [TSL] Union Steamship Co of New Zealand I can advise you that I live in Wellington, NZ, and could access all those institutions like National Library and Archives NZ that Derek refers to. The former holds those newspapers; the latter holds crew lists, or at least the captain in a card index system. Moreover, we have a Maritime Museum ["Museum of City and Sea"] in Wellington where I believe the original NZ records of the Union Steam Ship Co of New Zealand are held. All these institutions are of course accessible via internet, but whether you can thus find exactly what you want, I am not sure. I suggest that you try the internet approach first, and if you get stone- walled, then I may be able to find the time to visit the institutions for actual records. Some of the ships that Alexander Forbes HIRD sailed on have very NZ names: Kakapo [not Kakpo], Mokoia, Moana, Karitane, Wakatipu. The others sound more Aussie to me. Why do you want to know the routes? Regards Nick