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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Mr. Charles Seagar

Mr. Charles Seagar the Managing Owner of the Wellington Steam Packet Company, is an old colonist, and has done much to further the interests of the Empire City and the commerce of the provincial district. He was born in 1833 in Hampshire, England, and was brought up to the engineering trade, arriving in the Colony in 1858, per barque “Acasta,” which called at Nelson on the way to Wellington. Mr. Seagar founded the Phœnix Foundry, which he conducted for eighteen years, securing a large trade. In the meantime he had established the line of steamships known as the “Wellington Steam Packet Company,” and as the business required his undivided attention, he disposed of the foundry and engineering works to Messrs. Robertson and Co., who still carry on a considerable business. During the days of provincial governments Mr. Seagar was for some time a member of the Wellington Provincial Council. The subject of this notice, who is an elder brother of Mr. E. Seagar—the well-known iron founder—was married before leaving England for the Colony, but has no family.