Frederick Moss

Frederick Joseph Moss (1827/1828 – 8 July 1904) was a New Zealand politician who served as a member of Parliament as an independent.

In 1857, he went back to South Africa, intending to settle in Natal, but locusts had destroyed agricultural prospects.

[1] In Lyttelton, Moss supported the Moorhouse tunnel railway project and established himself as a trader.

He became captain of the local rifle volunteers and founded a newspaper, the Otago Daily Mail, which he sold after only a few months.

In 1889 he published 'Through atolls and islands in the Great South Sea', Sampson Low,Marston, Searle & Rivington, London.