ENTERPRISING WOMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20242, 30 April 1929, Page 7

ENTERPRISING WOMAN.

Any number of English women have proved that they can hold their own in business iq London and the provinces, but I know of only cne who is tho pioneer of a successful industry in a foreign country, states a London writer. She is a Scotswoman—Miss McLean, better known as "Bunnie" to the followers of the Whaddon Chase Hunt, and equally well known to big-game hunters in British East Africa, where she shot one of the finest lions that over fell to a woman's rifle. "Bunnie" McLean has just gone back to her orange fazenda not many miles from Rio do Janeiro. Two years ago this attractive and wealthy young women, who hails from Breda, in Aberdeenshire, originated and managed the first company to ship oranges from Brazil to England. Now she has set up in business for herself. With independence typical of the modern British woman she has bought her own plantation, has built bee own house, and herself grows, packs and ships the oranges which find a ready market at Covent Garden.

She lives alone, and employs and manages all her own native labour. She tells mo she has never had a strike or even the slightest difficulty with her Brazilian employees. Before going to Brazil Miss McLean and her brother. Major Godfrey McLean, late Gordon Highlanders, built a big refrigerating plant near Budapest for shipping Hungarian poultry to this countrv. -