WELL-KNOWN CITY BROKER.
MR W. H. PHIPPS BLACK MISSING Mr W. H. Phipps Black, who is believed to have been lost 'overboard from the ferry-steamer Wahine on her trip to Wellington on Tuesday night, was a well-known grain, produce, and timber broker, of Christchurch. He was born in Calcutta in 1859, and came 'to 1 Canterbury when still a young man. For some years he was connected with the firms of Miles and Company, and Dalgety and Company, but about 1896 he founded the brokerage business ■which he carried on until illness overtook him. He was very well known in business circles in Christchurch, and has been in touch with the City's progress for more than fifty years. Ho leaves a widow and one daughter, Mrs li. J. Glen, of Fendalton. A son was killed in the Great War.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20224, 30 April 1931, Page 8
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