FAITHFUL SERVICE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 431, 16 January 1933, Page 2

FAITHFUL SERVICE

THIRTEEN YEARS? DEVOTION • BRINGS REWARD TO YALET. PROVISIONS IN WILL. For faithful service a valet has been left by his employer between £5000 and £10,000 and a country house near Maidehhead/'Befkshife. ' He is Mr. Ri'cjiafd MacAllister, a 28-year» old Scptsman. The hequpst is made to him under the will of Dp. John Fallon Sidney Colohan, a 70-year-old physician and u widower, of Depn Cottage, Cookhapi Dean, who died last August, leaving £15,191. After leaving £3000 and jewellery to MacAllister's sister Maggie, who was Dr. Colohan's h'ousekeeper, and other small bequests to chayities, the doctor left the residue of his property to ttie valet, any halance oyer £10,000 to go'to tke sjster. ' The will states; "I make the above depositi'on ih favour of Richard MacAllister in considefatioh of his constant services an.4 devption to me during the last lo years, during- which time he has nursed me through three serious illnesses, sitting by my bedside praetically *day and nighfc, thus risking Jjis uwn lifp, and having been to me as a son,'never takihg a day on for 'his owri amusement." Thirteen years ago MacAllister, as a lB-year-oId' sch'polboy, entered the service of Dr. Colohah ih Dublin. For several yeans they fravelleu round the world together'.' A close friendship ripened between the two, and t|je dpctor virtually adopted MacAllister as his sbn.' " TEeh,' with MacAllister's sister as housekeeper, they went to live in ihe 'thames Vdlley. "The doctor was a father to us both," Miss MacAllister said. "My brother and the doctor were like father and son. They shared the same interests— readihg and gardening aud were inseparable. During the doctor's jpngsses Jny tjfothpp nursed him as tenderly as any woman. He used to spend bPW re9-dih? him .bppks and newspapers. , '• . Dtifing the whole 13 years my hrofchey has i}ever hh*d more t]jafi"a few days? h.oliday. For ihe pt'eSent vif iutphd£to go on liviug quietly here;

ness of a father. He was the most perfect gentleman I have ever known. He suffeyed from a wea-k heart and many' iimes it * was a 'fight tetweeri life and death. There' was no questipn of my takxng time off, any more th,an a son Would want to leave his father in tiine of illness." ,01'. Colohan directed that anyone disputirig the will should forfeit any interest in it.