Allan McDonald was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the

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of New Zealand. He represented the

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electorate from to 1884, when he resigned. The next year he was elected

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unopposed, but resigned before the 1886 election due to the death of his property manager. He went missing on 24 May 1893, last being seen at a hotel on Flinders Street in

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