MUNITIONS’ CHIEF DEAD

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1930, Page 15

MUNITIONS’ CHIEF DEAD

SIR FREDERICK BLACK. Sir Frederick Black, who directed the eupply of munitions for two years during the war, died at Frimley Green, near Alder shot, England, in June, at the age of 67. Sir Frederick was an enthusiastic Isle of Wight man. He wrote a song in praise of the island and a parliamentary history of it. He entered the Civil Service in 1880, and was later transferred to the Admiralty. He served at various stations in Malta and the East, and subsequently he 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 I was 17 I took part in an expedition, aud made a record which I believe still stands. With four' companions I rowed around the Islo of Wight in a four-oared galley on the night of July 21, 1880. Our time of actual rowing for nearly 70 inilcs was only ten and a-half hours.”