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

Mr. Magnus Isbister

Mr. Magnus Isbister , who was elected Chairman of the Waihemo County Council in November, 1902, has represented the Blue Mountain riding in the Council since 1892. He was born in the Orkney Islands in 1857, received his elementary education at his native place, and was brought up by his father as a farmer, but he subsequently had six years' experience of mercantile life, two of which were spent in Liverpool. Mr. Isbister came to Port Chalmers in 1876, per ship “Marlborough,” and settled in the district. After a general country experience, extending over some years, he leased his farm of 960 acres on the Dunback Road, and has since carried on mixed farming. He was a member of the Inch Valley school committee, until it was added to the Dunback district, and was for some time its chairman; and at present (1904) he is chairman of the Dunback committee. Mr. Isbister is a Past Master of the Palmersten Masonic Lodge, and being of a genial, unassuming, and obliging disposition, he is held in high estimation among his friends and neighbours. He page 442 was married in 1891 to a daughter of Mr. J. Kirkness, of Orkney, and has four sons and two daughters.