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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Munro, Walter Grant

Munro, Walter Grant , Farmer, Kurow, Mr. Munro is the second son of the late Mr. W. G. Munro, after whom he is named. His father left Victoria for New Zealand on the day of his son's birth, and settled at Rugged Ridges, near Kurow. Mr. W. G. Munro was born in Victoria on the 21st of April, 1863, and was brought to Otago by his mother in 1865. He was trained to sheepfarming in the Kurow district, and commenced on his own account about 1887. For about five years he had the Omarama Hotel, but gave it up in 1902, and purchased his present property of 303 acres of freehold on the Gully Road. Mr. Munro engages chiefly in dairy farming, and supplies milk to the creamery. He served for about four years as a volunteer in the North Otago Mounted Rifles, and he was initiated as a Freemason at Fairlie in Lodge Mackenzie, New Zealand Constitution. Mr. Munro was married in 1890, to a daughter of Mr. Silas Lousley, of Kurow, and has three sons and one daughter.