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

Mcrae, Duncan Mckenzie

Mcrae, Duncan Mckenzie , Sheepfarmer, “Mount Egmont,” Mokoreta. Mr McRae was born in 1845, at Lochalsh, Ross-shire, Scotland, where he was educated and brought up on his father's farm. He came to the Bluff by the ship “Helenslea,” in 1863, and went to Glenure station, where he was shepherding for eight page 1082 years. He then took up a farm in the Forest Hill district, which he sold to his brother three years later, and bought the Waikawa run. About 1880, Mr McRae acquired the Wyndham run, which he held for about twenty-four years before selling to Messrs Begg Brothers in 1903. His present holding of 2,400 acres, which he devotes to sheepfarming, was a portion of the old run, and a good residence and substantial farm building have been erected on it. Mr McRae is a Master Mason of Lodge Mokoreta, Wyndham, chairman of the Mokoreta Cemetery Trust, and a member of the Mokoreta school and Presbyterian church committees.

Mr. D. K. McRae.

Mr. D. K. McRae.