MUNITIONS CHIEF DEAD.
SIR FREDERICK BLACK. GREAT ROWING RECORD. Sir Frederick Black, who directed the supply of munitions for two years during the war, died at Friniley Green, near Aldershot, in June, at the ago of 67. Sir Frederick was hii enthusiastic Isle of Wight man. He wrote a song in praise of the island and a parliamentary history of it. lie entered the Civil Service in ISBO. and was later transferred to the Admiralty. He served at various stations in Malta and the East, and subsequently lie became Director of Naval Stores and Naval Contracts, but resigned in 1919 to become managing director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Sir Frederick served as Director-Gen-eral of Munitions Supply during the war. In his reminiscences he wrote:—"When 1 was 17 I took part in an expedition, and made a record which I believe still stands. With four companions f rowed around the Isle of Wight in a four-oarcd galley on the night of July 21, 1880. Our time of actual rowing for nearly lO miles was onlv ten and a-half hours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20622, 22 July 1930, Page 9
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