OKAY...
I visited the Archives today and did find something on Albert but a couple of things stumped the archivists though.
First we looked at the Emergency Precautions Scheme files (see Post#8) and there is some correspondence there which I took photographs of but the second file is missing - now this caused a bit of stir amongst the staff and they had 3 people looking for this second file and there's a file box but it was empty.
In the first file was some letters to Albert who was applying to be part of the scheme but because he was an Alien they were questioning his application and since the second file is missing - can't go any further.
In regards to the Alien Registers I did get this from a genealogy CD that the Porirua Library had as below -
1917 ALIEN RECORDS:
NAME - WILLIAMSON, ALBERT
DATE - 1917
AGE - 28
YEARS IN NZ - 10
PLACE - WAIMEA
PAGE 259 - FURTHER ENQUIRES TO NZSG FAMILY RESEARCH CENTRE
So could this be a record of those files that don't exist? I showed them what I had and they did say that this is more than likely the only file on Albert they have.
Also looked through the Police Gazettes for 1907/08 as per his arrival date from the info above and found nothing.
We did look at an Alien register card indexes and found nothing which again surprised the staff... don't know if it was the same ones mentioned above by Twiggy.
I didn't know about the General Biographical Card Index, thanks for that Spades when I'm next in there will have a look - I took the day off work especially for this and had some other stuff to look for as well (which I did have success on!) so didn't get a chance to look into everything I wanted to.
They said that the WW1 reserve rolls only had basic information on them but again ran out time to look at the actual registers on the microfiche.
Spades/Twiggy/Beg - Thanks so much for you help so far with all this, its really appreciated.
Beg - I read your post about the family search results - Will definitely have a look myself as well, I think I did search these ages ago and came back with similar results...Albert was rather elusive in life and in death it seems! The birth register link you asked about is here -
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0u13/ as per Twiggys earlier posts.
Twiggy - Kragero is mentioned on the marriage certificate.
I guess we just keep on looking, I think I'll post a request up on the European section on here and see if that yields any result.
So the search continues....
Cheers Glen