The last article in this series ended with the four Auckland Seagar brothers, William, Henry, Charles and George, moving on from steel yacht building and racing. In 1907 both William and Henry died, leaving Seagar Bros., the thriving engineering business at the foot of Hobson Street, in the hands of Charles and George.
The contemporary Cyclopedia of New Zealand described their business as “Engineers, Boilermakers, Iron and Brass Founders, General Smith Workers, Manufacturers of Cyanide Percolating Vats, Wrought Iron Water Pipes, and Fluming, Steel Steam Launches of Guaranteed Speed, Designers and Makers of Steel Yachts, Ventilators, Tanks, Girders and Plate, Iron Workers.”
Much of their output was for the quartz gold extraction industry in the Thames, while they also built gold dredges for alluvial gold recovery in the South Island.…
