ESTATE OF £600,000 LEFT BY WOMAN

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30401, 28 March 1964, Page 20

ESTATE OF £600,000 LEFT BY WOMAN

fN.Z. Prest Association) AUCKLAND, March 27 An estate sworn at £600,000 was left by Mrs Alberta McLean, a Justice of the Peace and former member of the Dargaville Borough Council, who died last year. Mrs McLean, a god-daughter of King Edward VII, died last August, aged 79. The greater part of her estate was in Britain and has been left to private beneficiaries. Included in her will, which has just been granted probate, was a bequest giving her eyes to Auckland Hospital to enable others to see again. Mrs McLean was born in England and during the First World War was a driver transporting military patients.

After a brief visit to New Zealand in 1923, she went to India where she married Colonel McLean, of the Royal Artillery. Three years later she returned to New Zealand and bought a Sheep station on the Coromandel peninsula. She spent six months of each year in England. Property Sold

During the Second World War Mrs McLean sold her property. She was a hospital hostess to New Zealand servicemen and nurses who visited her South Warnborough home in England. After the war she settled in Dargaville. The will provides for the bequest of a property in Dargaville to the Mater Hospital in Auckland, but this was transferred as a gift before her death.

A bequest of £5OO is made for the care of her two cats and any residue from this will go to the Auckland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.