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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited

Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited. Directors, the Hon. George McLean, M.L.C. (chairman), Messrs. J. M. Ritchie, E. B. Cargill, A. W. Morris, J. R. Jones, and James Mills (managing director). Head Office, Dunedin. Branch office, corner of Johnston Street and Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Telephone 7. Acting Manager, Mr. W. A. Kennedy. This popular New Zealand Company, which will be fully referred to in the Otago volume, owns, at the time of writing, a fleet of fifty steamships, including many large and superior vessels, and plans have been prepared for several new steamers. The Company maintains services weekly between all New Zealand ports and Australia and Tasmania; twice weekly between Tasmania and Australia; almost daily between the principal ports of New Zealand, radiating from Wellington; and monthly between Auckland and Fiji, between Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, and Sydney, and between Auckland, Raratonga, and Tahiti. The Union Company also holds the contracts from the New Zealand and New South Wales Governments for the mail service to England via America, arranging monthly departures from Sydney, Auckland, and San Francisco respectively. They have also established an important trade between New Zealand and Calcutta, and every season vessels are despatched to load corn sacks, wool packs, and general Indian produce, sailing for New Zealand in the months of July and November. The Wellington offices of the Company are in a splendid two-story brick building—at the junction of Customhouse Quay and Johnston Street—completed to the Company's order in January, 1890. Behind these offices is situated the Company's stores depot of two stories in height, and, in addition, the Company possesses extensive workshops and repairing yards at the corner of Taranaki Street and Victoria Street. The Company's fleet consists of the following steamers:—Monowai, Mararoa, Tekapo, Rakanoa, Talune, Rotokino, Tarawera, Waihora, Hauroto, Wakatipu, Manapouri, Oonah, Rotomahans, Taieri, Te Anau, Taviuni, Pukaki, Corinna, Flora, Ovalau, Pateena, Poherua, Upolu, Arawata, Ringarooma, Takapuna, Rotorua, Penguin, Janet Nicoll, Ohau, Taupo, Rosamond, Wainui, Dingadee, Omapere, Mawhera, Grafton, Brunner, Wareatea, Australia, Mahinapua, Orowaiti, Kawatiri, Southern Cross, Oreti, Moa, Manawatu, Beautiful Star, Maori, and Waihi, the total tonnage being 56,616.