AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 187, 15 August 1901, Page 3

AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

DEATH OF A PIONEER.

(Special to Times.) Auckland, last night. The remains of Mr Every Maclean, fatlier of Mr Geoffrey Maclean, of Gisborne, were interred this afternoon, at Ilowiek. Among the relatives at the graveside was deceased’s grandchild, Robert Mac Lean, son of Mr Geoffrey Maclean. Another link in the chain connecting the early settlement of Auckland province with the present day has been severed by the death of Mr Every Maclean. One of the pioneers of the pastoral industry in New Zealand, Mr Maclean was widely known and highly respected all over the Auckland province, and his death, although at the advanced age of 83, will cause widespread regret. For some years, Mr Maclean has been in indifferent health, and ho passed away at the beginning of the week at his residence, “ Bleak House,” Howick. Born in Cornwall, Mr Maclean came to New Zealand in the early fifties. He had intended to settle in tho South, but the wind and waves intervened, and his ship somehow landed her passengers in Auckland. There Mr .Maclean has spent a long and active life in partnership with his brother Robert. Deceased took up a considerable area of land at Pakuranga, and has ever since been one of the best known and most successful breeders in tho Auckland Province. He imported to New Zealand a large number of valuable thoroughbred and Clydesdale horses, pedigreo cattle, and sheep throughout his lifetime his stock have been found throughout the colony, particularly his horses and Shorthorns and Hereford cattle, and Southdown and Leicester sheep. During tho Maori troubles Mr Maclean raised a corps in 1800 known as the Howick Cavalry Volunteers, of which he was] captain. Later on ho took an active interest in the Auckland Provincial Government, and was for sonio years a member of the Auckland Provincial Council, and for a time ncting-Supcrintcndont too. Twentylive years ago he was elected a momber of the Legislative Council, but he soon found that the attendance in Wellington during tho session of Parliament claimed too much of his time, and as lie was at tho time actively interested in large farming operations in the Waikato, ho resigned his seat. Much sympathy is expressed here for Mr Geoffrey Maclean by his Auckland friends in his sad affliction, and undoubtedly the sumo feeling will be expressed in Gisborne.