Merchant and founder of Otago Daily Mail; born at St. Helena, spent time in South Africa, emigrated to New Zealand in 1859; M.P in New Zealand; governed Cook Islands. (In Wellesley as Frederick James Moss.) See Barrie Macdonald. 'Moss, Frederick Joseph', from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 30-Oct-2012

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