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

Councillor Alexander

Councillor Alexander McKenzie. who was elected to the Campbelltown Borough Council in April, 1901, was born in 1858, at Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where he was educated and brought up as a builder. Mr McKenzie landed at Sydney in 1883, and shortly afterwards removed to Melbourne, where he resided for ten years. He came to the Bluff in 1893, and has since been engaged in the building trade, and has erected several prominent buildings, Mr McKenzie joined the Order of Druids in Melbourne in 1883, and was afterwards transferred to the Invercargill Lodge. He was married, in 1887, to a daughter of the late Mr George Rose, of Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and has three sons and one daughter.