His Patriotic Services.

Sir Douglas Maclean was an earnest patriot and a great advocate of a strong Royal Navy. He was president of the Wellington Branch of the Navy League, and a member since the foundation of the league; Vice-President of the London executive during the war period; was elected President for New Zealand at the Dominion Conference in 1922; and was the first President of the Hawke's Bay Branch. He was the most outstanding personality of the League in New Zealand, and by his death the Wellington Branch suffered an irreparable loss.

Sir Douglas was President of the Wellington Early Settlers' Association, and always took the keenest interest in the affairs of the Society.

During the Great War he and Lady Maclean were in England, and lived in London through the anxious period of the air raids. Both of them devoted all their energies to war work. They page 19

The old wheel. The bicycle on which Sir Douglas Maclean rode from Wellington to Napier in the Seventies.

were very liberal contributors to various war funds, and especially helped New Zealanders on leave and in hospitals. For a time they maintained several motor ambulances at the front.