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• RIMS Dalhousie

  With New Zealand troops away in Africa fighting in the Second Boer War (1899-1902) the citizens of Nelson gave a particularly enthusiastic welcome to a contingent from the Indian...

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• Settlement in Stoke

  Stoke was once a swampy area with numerous small streams. When Maori arrived in this area, it was a wetland with numerous streams draining water from the hills...

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• Sergeant John Nash

  The Police Act 1886 established New Zealand's first national, civil, police force. Sergeant John Nash of Nelson was the first non-commissioned member appointed to this Force on 1 September...

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• John Sylvanus Cotterell

  Surveyor, settler, explorer If John Cotterell had not been killed, in the Wairau Affray,  at the tender age of 23, it is likely he would have become a person...

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• Maurice Gee

  Esteemed writer calls Nelson home Maurice Gee was once described by Britain’s Sunday Times as ‘one of the finest writers at work, not only in New Zealand…but in the...

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