Morven "... perpetuates that of the ancestral home of the McLeans. Morven was originally the centre of the Waikakahi Estate - about 48,000 acres of freehold owned by Allan McLean. This property was purchased by the Government in 1899 for nearly 500,000 pounds and cut up into over 100 sections." The New Zealand guide. H. Wise & Co., 1962, p.464.