Allan McDonald (New Zealand politician)

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{{Other people|Allan MacDonald}}

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

He represented the East Coast electorate from {{NZ election link year|1879}} to 1884, when he resigned.{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103 }} The next year he was elected mayor of Gisborne unopposed,{{cite web |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH18851114.2.20.1 |title=ELECTION OF MAYOR |date=14 November 1885 |work=Poverty Bay Herald |publisher=Papers Past}} but resigned before the 1886 election due to the death of his property manager.{{cite web |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH18860908.2.21 |title=BOROUGH COUNCIL. |date=8 September 1886 |work=Poverty Bay Herald |publisher=Papers Past}} He went missing on 24 May 1893, last being seen at a hotel on Flinders Street in Melbourne.{{cite web |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THS18930905.2.20 |title=A Strange Disappearance. |date=5 September 1893 |work=Thames Star |publisher=Papers Past}}