"ASPRO KING" DEAD
Mr A. M. Nicholas's Career Mr Alfred Michael Nicholas, governing direetor of Nicholas Pty., Ltd., and | direetor of Aspro, Limited, New Zea land, and Aspro, Limited, London, who i was a leading business man and philan- | thropist in Melbourne, died in his ! ^ountry home at Sherbrook recently, after a short illness. He was aged 55. Mr Nicholas was born at Majorca, a small country town in Victoria. He fcad two younger brothers, Mi George Nicholas, with whom ho fonnded Nicholas, Pty., Limited, and Mr H. E. Nicholas, who is now in Canada. When the importation of Gonnan aspirin was stopped at the beginniag of the war, the Gommonwealth Goverii' ment offered any Australian who could dfscover the formula an immediate licence to manufacture the product. Mi George Nicholas, who was practising aa a chemist at St. Kilda, made the discovery. He and Mr A, M. Nicholas, who was then an indentor, went into partnership in 1915. Messrs A. M. and George Nicholas have given raore than £500,000 to education, charity aad the Methodist Church. The late Mr Nicholas gave £8000 to the Royal AgrieuRural Society. Mrs Nicholas and two children survive him.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 45, 9 March 1937, Page 12
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