HEART ATTACK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 141, 16 June 1932, Page 7

HEART ATTACK.

BRITISH MINISTER.

Sudden Death of President of Board of Education.

SIR DONALD MacLEAN,

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, June 15. Sir Donald Mac Lean, President of the Board of Education, died unexpectedly at his London home this afternoon from heart failure. He had been attending his Departmental duties until within the last few days and was present at the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday of last week. During the crisis lust August, he took a prominent part with his fellow Liberal leader, Sir Herbert Samuel, in the negotiations which finally led to the establishment of the first National Government.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Mac Donald, and his colleagues at Lausanne, Sir John Simou. and Mr. Neville Chamberlain, and Mr. Walter Kunciman were much distressed when the news of Sir Donald MaeLeau's death was conveyed to them. They at once dispatched a meesage of condolence to the widow. The Minister of Agriculture, Sir John Gilmour, during a debate in the House of Commons, said that the earliest possible opportunity would be taken of paying a suitable tribute to the President of the Board of Education, the news of whose death caused his Cabinet colleagues and members of Parliament deep sorrow. .