Obituary Mr Arthur Hilton
Mr Arthur Hilton, a pioneer of New Zealand’s chemical manufacturing industry, died in Wellington on Saturday. He was 72. Mr Hilton was also well known in music and soccer circles and since 1979 had been Consul-General for Austria in New Zealand. He was born in Vienna and in 1939 emigrated to New Zealand, where he and his brother started the country’s first grease-manufacturing plant, Chemicals Manufacturing Company, Ltd. As a result of development work done by C.M.C., most greases used in New Zealand during World War II were 95 per cent of local raw materials. In 1942, the company was
asked to investigate the feasibility of an oil refinery in New Zealand and in 1946 it was invited to manuiacture grease for the newly formed BP (then called An-glo-Iranian’ Oil) company which' was 50 per cent Gov-ernment-owned. ' C.M.C. became one of the main industrial chemical industries in New Zealand and in 1970 was taken over by BP New Zealand, Ltd, with ■Mr Hilton as managing director. *' In 1974, he relinquished control of the C.M.C. factory at Seaview, Wellington, moving to BP’s head office, from which he officially retired in January. 1975. Mr Hilton is survived by his wife and a son.
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Press, 1 March 1982, Page 6
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