PROMINENT CHEMIST DIES
COLLAPSE AT DINNER By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, January 31. Mr. Allister 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 Institjitg of Chemistry of Great Britain. He died a quarter of an hour later. Mr. Wright was recognised among the foremost authorities in Australia and New Zealand on the scientific side of the refrigerating industry, and on the manufacture of meat works by-products. He had written many papers for scientific journals on the chemistry of flesh foods, and had been chief chemist for the New Zealand Refrigerating Company since 1902. He was a captain in the Medical Corps in the army during the war. and did much valuable work in bacteriology at Codford. He was born at Palmerston North in 1881, and studied at Lincoln College and Canterbury College.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 109, 1 February 1930, Page 12
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