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Union Company pocket guide

By the 1880s anyone wanting to travel by sea around New Zealand, or across the Tasman to Australia, would have carried one of these – the Union Steam Ship Company’s monthly pocket guide, which listed its sailings and the timetables of government railways.

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Gavin McLean, Shipping – The era of steam, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/5676/union-company-pocket-guide (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Gavin McLean, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 January 2016.