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

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Councillor John Menzies Kennedy , who has been a member of the Winton Borough Council since 1900, was born in 1866, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, where he was educated and brought up as a hair-dresser. Mr Kennedy came out to New Zealand as ship's barber on the s.s. “Ionic,” on her second voyage to the colony, and after spending three months at Kaikoura, was in business in Palmerston North for two years and a half as a partner in the firm of Cox and Kennedy. He then bought a business at Feilding, but having sustained a heavy loss, nine months later, by the destruction of his premises by fire, he removed to Otago. In 1887, he opened a business at the Bluff, where he remained for ten years, where he sold out and acquired his present business at Winton. Mr Kennedy's premises stand on a freehold section, and consist of a wood and iron building, containing a shop and saloon. Mr Kennedy is a member of the Winton Jockey Club, and has for some time been secretary and handicapper of the Birchwood Hunt Clubl He was for two years handicapper for the Riverton Racing Club, and has acted in the same capacity for the Heddon Hush Club, and the Orepuki Racing Club. For three years he was a member of the Bluff Navals, in which he was acting first-class petty officer, and has been a trooper in the Southland Mounted Rifles. He has been an Oddfellow since 1891. Mr Kennedy was married, in 1888, to a daughter of Mr T. Lockerbie, farmer, of Otapiri Gorge, and has six sons.