MRS ALEXANDER MUNRO

Evening Star, Issue 18280, 21 May 1923, Page 9

MRS ALEXANDER MUNRO

THE PASSING OF AN AGED COLONIST.

The widow of the late Alexander Munro, farmer, Pleasant Valley, Palmerston South, passed away at her residence, Pleasant Valley, recently. Mrs Munro, who was the youngest full sister of the late Sir John M'Kcnzie, and half-sister of Professor M'Kcnzie, of Wellington, was in her eighty-third year. She arrived in Otago with her husband and a family of ton some forty-two years ago, and two more children were born in New' Zealand- Of her family of twelve—six sons and six daughters—nine survive her. The daughters are Mrs Wilson, of Dunedin; Mrs Coutts, of Pleasant Valley, Palmerston South; Mrs Cameron, Palmerston South; Mrs Burnett, of Queenstown. The sons are Major Duncan Munro, of Wanganui; Mr David Munro, of Palmerston North; Mr John Munro, of Arnberloy; Mr Hugh Munro, of the Stock Department, Auckland; and Mr Donald Munro, of Pleasant Valley. Mrs Munro also leaves thirty-five grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren. She herself was one of a family of fifteen, eight of whom found their way, during the past sixty-five years, to New* Zealand. An older sister died ten years ago, leaving over seventy descendants. Sir John M'Kcnzie was the first of the family to leave the Highlands of Scotland and settle in New Zealand. Ho left tho home of his boyhood on the beautiful estate of tho late Sir Alexander Matheson, Bart., of Ardross, in the year 1860, and readied New Zealand early in 1851. Other members of the family followed from time to time. To-day there are nearly 200 descendants of his father in New Zealand.