CAMBRIDGE RESIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 236, 5 October 1936, Page 10

CAMBRIDGE RESIDENT.

NINETY-FIVE YEARS OLD. Mrs. Margaret Anderson, the oldest resident of Cambridge, celebrated her 95th birthday on Sunday. Mrs. Anderson is fairly robust for her 'years and maintains a keen interest in public topics. Her memory remains keen, but of recent years her eyesight has become weaker. She now rarely leaves her home. Mrs. Anderson's life is of interest, is she was one of the Nova Scotians who joined an expedition to New Zealand to establish the Waipu settlement. Her parents were Captain and Mrs. Dflncan McKenzie, who took their family to Adelaide from Nova Scotia on the ship Highland Lass, i Two years later, the Rev. Norman McLeod " led the Nova Scotian emigrants to Waipu, New Zealand, where Mrs. Anderson arrived at the age of 13 years. She later married the late Mr. Anderson, and she and her husband settled at Mangere. . Forty-eight years a<ro the family went to Cambridge, and Mrs. Anderson has resided there ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson took a farm in the Pukerimu [ district. During the past 20 years Mrs. Anderson has resided in the borough. Her husband died in 1017, and of her nine children three are living.. They are Messrs. J. W. Anderson, chairman, Matamata County Council: A. D. Anderson and Bruce Anderson, of Cambridge. There are 10 grandchildren and two'great-grandchildren.