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• Ngawhatu Hospital

  *Ngawhatu Hospital… Home or nightmare?* Ngawhatu Valley was the site of an orphanage industrial school, and later a psychiatric hospital. St Mary's Orphanage[st-marys-boys-cemetery/] operated from 1886-1919. Ngawhatu Psychiatric Hospital operated...

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• Buxton and Company Nelson Merchants

  E. Buxton & Co Merchants was an importing and exporting business, selling everything from apple trees to firearms, women's hosiery to sausage skins. The business, first opened in 1855,...

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• The Bishop Suter Art Gallery

  The death of a bishop, and the determination of his widow to found a gallery in his name for the people of Nelson, led to the establishment of...

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• Fruit for the picking

  There is a little known secret in the Top of the South - Free Food for the picking. Yes, fruit trees are now being grown in public places,...

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• Kokowai

  Kokowai (red ochre), obtained from clays rich in iron and aluminium silicates, was highly prized by Maori; depending on chemical composition, reds, oranges, yellows and browns were produced. Onekaka...

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