100 Years Old Today
[Special to “Northern Advocate"! TAURANGA. February 19
Mrs. Isabella Bain Munro, of Sixth Avenue, Tauranga, is celebrating her 100th birthday today. She was born in Scotland on February 19, 1842. Her birthplace was Lossiemouth, also the birthplace of the late Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. former Prime Minister of Great Britain, who was a boyhood playmate of Mrs. Munro’s children. After her marriage to the late Mr. William Munro. a ship’s officer. Mrs. Munro lived in Scotland and London, and in 1903 they arrived in New Zealand. Mr. Munro established a shipwright business in Auckland, and later when Mr. Munro retired, they lived at Lake Rotoiti. Mr. Munro died in 1916.
Mrs. Munro lives with her son in Tauranga. There is also another son and one daughter.
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Northern Advocate, 19 February 1942, Page 2
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