COLLAPSED AT A DINNER.
DEATH OF NOTED CHEMIST. AUTHORITY ON FLESH FOODS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Mr. Alister McLean Wright, chief chemist for the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, collapsed while presiding this evening at the dinner of the New Zealand branch of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain. He died aquarter of an hour later. Mr. Wright was recognised as being among the foremost authorities in Australia and New Zealand on the scientific side of the refrigerating industry, and on the manufacture of meat wprks byproducts. He had written many papers in scientific journals on the chemistry of flesh foods. He had been chief chemist for the New Zealand Refrigerating Company since 1902. Mr. Wright was a captain in the medical corps in the wor. He did much valuable work in bacteriology at Codford. He was born in Palmerston North in 18S1 and studied at Lincoln College and Canterbury College.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 27, 1 February 1930, Page 13
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