The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. Donald Mckenzie
Mr. Donald Mckenzie
, Manager of the Dredge, is also one of the proprietors. He carries on farming on 264 acres of land at Greenvale. Mr McKenzie was born in Rossshire, Scotland, in 1867, and came to New Zealand with his father. He engaged in general and farm work for some time, was afterwards a part owner of a threshing plant for eight years, and in 1891 took up his present farm. Mr McKenzie has a general acquaintance with both islands of New Zealand, and
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has also been in Australia. He is a Master Mason in Lodge Hercules, Tapanui, and Grand Master of Loyal Waikaka Lodge, Manchester Unity, Independent Order of Oddfellows, and he has been a member of the Greenvale school committee for two years. Mr McKenzie was married, in 1897, to Annie, eldest
daughter of Mr John Kelly, of Makarewa, and has three sons and two daughters.