Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1897, Wellington

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

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

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Scott, Munro Mackenzie, Farmer, “Shieldaig,” Birmingham. Postal address, Fowlers. The farm is 539 acres in extent, and will soon be all felled, grassed, and subdivided into paddocks. Although Mr. Scott had been only eighteen months on the property at the time of writing, the farm had undergone great changes, having been nearly all standing bush on his taking it up. At present 300 acres is grazing about two-and-a-half sheep to the acre, besides thirty-five head of cattle. The whole is well watered by a number of never-failing streams. Mr. Scott was born in 1872 in North Scotland, and spent nearly five years at Fette's College, Edinburgh, after which he entered the Clydesdale Distillery Company, Limited, Wishaw, of which his father is still the managing director. Although offered. he declined to accept his father's position and left to come to New Zealand, landing in March, 1890, per “Kaikoura.” Three years were spent in Turakina, where Mr. Scott gained his experience with sheep. He is married to a daughter of Mr. J. H. Day, saddler, Turakina.