Mr. Robert Donald Douglas McLean, Chairman of the Hawke's Bay County Council, represented Napier in the House of Representatives from 1896 to 1899. He has been for twenty years a member of the County Council, and for a similar period a member of the committee of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society, of which he has been president, is one of the oldest members of the Rabbit Board, is a member of the Board of Governors of the Boys' High School and the Girls' High School, and has also served on the Education Board, the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, and in many other minor public capacities. Mr. McLean was born in Wellington in the year 1852, and is the only son of the late Sir Donald McLean. He was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and at Clifton College, England, but was prevented from proceeding to the University on account of ill health, which necessitated his return to the colony. He was then articled to Messrs Hart and Buckley, a prominent legal firm in Wellington, and subsequently returned to England, where he was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1882. Mr. McLean, however, did not practise his profession; he returned to New Zealand in 1883, and has since devoted himself to industrial pursuits, chiefly as a large station owner. His present property, known as “Marae-kakaho,” is one of the largest and best equipped stations in the province. Mr. McLean is a director of the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Co-operative Association and of the North British and New Zealand Freezing Company; and is president of the Highland Society.