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• Sergeant William Mason

  New Zealand's early police officers were well known in the towns which they watched over. Often they would go out of their way to gain the public's trust...

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• Settlement in Stoke

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

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• The 1884 plague of rats

  [admin/pages/]Early settlers in the Nelson Province faced many challenges. One of these was the rat problem – which exploded to plague proportions in 1884. PolynesianRatNZ Illustration of Polynesian Rat, Rattus...

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• Early Jewish Settlement in Nelson

  Jewish traders were recorded in New Zealand as early as 1829 -  probably sealers and whalers[marlborough-sounds-whaling/]. Settlers arrived with the New Zealand Company[new-zealand-company/], established in 1839 by Edward Gibbon Wakefield...

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• Elma Turner

  *Elma Frances Turner, M.B.E, 1904-1991* Elma Turner, known as ‘Tilly’ to close friends and family, moved to Nelson from Palmerston North when she was appointed as a geography teacher...

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