Allan McDonald (New Zealand politician)

For other people named Allan MacDonald, see Allan MacDonald (disambiguation).

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1879–1881 7th East Coast Independent
1881–1884 8th East Coast Independent
1879 election advert placed by McDonald in The Poverty Bay Herald[1]

Allan McDonald was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the Gisborne Region of New Zealand.

He represented the East Coast electorate from 1879 to 1884, when he resigned.[2] The next year he was elected mayor of Gisborne unopposed,[3] but resigned before the 1886 election due to the death of his property manager.[4] He went missing on 24 May 1893, last being seen at a hotel on Flinders Street in Melbourne.[5]

  1. ^ "Electoral Addresses". The Poverty Bay Herald. Vol. VI, no. 861. 12 August 1879. p. 3. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  2. ^ Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
  3. ^ "ELECTION OF MAYOR". Poverty Bay Herald. Papers Past. 14 November 1885.
  4. ^ "BOROUGH COUNCIL". Poverty Bay Herald. Papers Past. 8 September 1886.
  5. ^ "A Strange Disappearance". Thames Star. Papers Past. 5 September 1893.