Mrs. McKenzie (née Annie Munro), is the daughter of Mr. John Munro, a tenant farmer on the Novar Estate, Glenglass, Rosshire, Scotland. Here the subject of this notice was born and brought up. On the 23rd of May, 1860, she cast in her lot at the hymenial altar with Mr. (now the Hon. John) McKenzie, and on that selfsame day the brave young girl left her native heath with her juvenile consort, to seek their fortunes in far away New Zealand. The pluck and self-reliance shown by Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie on their wedding day has not been unrewarded. Fortune has favoured them, and together they have risen to a high position in the Colony. The New Zealand Graphic of September the 17th, 1891, says, speaking of Mrs. McKenzie and her children: “Their family consists of two page 47 fine sons, both well-grown young men, and three bright, intelligent daughters, one of whom generally accompanies her mother in her visits to the House. Mrs. McKenzie's tastes are essentially domestic, and in training her children, supervising her household, and hospitably entertaining her friends, she has always found ample scope for her energies, as well as the purest of all enjoyments.” Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie had another daughter who died at the early age of thirteen years.