Historical information

This is a photograph of Councillor Donald Munro who represented Central Riding on the Orbost Shire Council.
Donald Munro, with his brother, Archie carried on a boot-making business in one of the rooms of a three-storeyed barn at Lochiel. The Munros were musically inclined and through them a band was formed in 1889. Donald Munro was involved in many of the town's activities. (More in Mary Gilbert's Personalities and Stories of the Early Orbost District).

Significance

This item is associated with the Orbost Shire Council. The shire covered an area of 9,347 square kilometres and existed from 1892 until 1994 when it became part of the East Gippsland Shire Council.
It is also associated with the Munro family who were early Orbost settlers.

Physical description

A black / white head and shoulders portrait photograph of a bearded man in a suit.

Inscriptions & markings

on back - "Cr D. Munro, Central Riding 1897 - 1929"