Columnist 3 Mar 1914: AUSTRALIAN WOOL IN CALIFORNIA. The San Francisco correspondent of the Auckland "Star" writes on January 10th: The arrival of 1,800 bales of wool, valued at 100,000 dollars, at the port of San Francisco, from Australia, has excited much speculation on the Pacific coast, more especially as this was the largest consignment ever arriving at San Francisco on an Oceanic liner. Statements were made that this will be followed by other large shipments, and from now on it is expected that wool will he a big factor in freight from Australia to San Francisco. Profound satisfaction, amounting to the greatest optimism, was expressed by Mr. H. Stephenson  Smith, the New Zealand Government representative at San Francisco, who declared that the development of the woollen market at San Francisco was of the utmost importance, not only to Australia, but equally so to New Zealand, as the latter had the finest wool in the world. Statements had been made that a large woollen factory was to be established at the industrial centre of Richmond, a thriving city bordering the bay of San Francisco. Reference had been made to the exportation of wool from the Antipodes to America in the greasy and unwashed state of the wool, but the practice had been in such a case to send the unwashed wool across the American continent some 3,000 miles to an Eastern manufactory, where the wool went.through the process of cleaning, and was then either shipped back to California, or was here woven into woollen articles, necessitating heavy freightage charges. It was evident if the wool arrived in San Francisco ready for use, the goods could be manufactured and placed on the Western markets immediately, and a very appreciable saving in cost would ! be effected by the absence of transporting the raw and finished materials over so many thousands of miles

Hawera and Normanby Star: 28 Feb 1916 Strange and Serious Accident

Evening Post 8 oct 1923: Transit of Mails. Accellerating Services - United States and New Zealand 

AGENT AT 'FRISCO. (Auckland Star, 31 Dec 1831) AGENT AT 'FRISCO. DEATH OF MR. STEPHENSON SMITH DISPATCHER OF MAILS. The death occurred on December 24 of Mr. H Stephenson Smith, New Zealand agent at San Francisco. Mr. Stephenson Smith entered the New Zealand postal service in 1869, and, attracted by glowing reports during the Californian gold rushes, resigned in 1880 and entered business at San Francisco. He was appointed resident agent for the New Zealand Government in' August, 1893, and in that capacity he superintended the dispatch of all New Zealand mails through that port. He is a brother of a former Surveyor-General, Mr. Percy Smith.