Obituary MR F. L. WRIGHT

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32361, 29 July 1970, Page 12

Obituary MR F. L. WRIGHT

Mr Franklin Link Wright, whose death occurred on Monday, was a member of the North Canterbury Catchment Board for 18 years, and was widely known ’to fanners of the older generation as a horse-dealer. Mr Wright, who was 77, was born on the farm of his father, Mr James Wright, at Coutts Island. A great part of this property became Wright’s Cut, which now carries the diverted flow of the Waimakariri River. Mr Link Wright farmed all his life, mostly •at Cutts Island. He became a dealer in working horses, buying and selling them by the hundreds, did contracting work with horse teams, and, in the days before graders and bulldozers, hired out teams for road construction, and to the old Waimakariri River Trust, for river control work. Elected to the North Canterbury Catchment Board by defeating the late Mr W. F. McArthur in 1950, Mr Wright held the seat representing : the counties of Waimairi and i Paparua until be was dei feated by Mr R. H. Mackenzie in 1968. He bad a vast know- : ledge of the Waimakariri and - played an important part in , the board’s decisions on its control