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• Education in Marlborough

  Marlborough's early schools faced a tough beginning. The first school was established by Nelson settlers but, after separation in 1859, Marlborough's education system suffered from a lack of money....

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• St Andrews Church and early Wakapuaka

  Wakapuaka Settlement View of the Bluffs View of The Bluffs, 1890. Nelson Provincial Museum, Tyree Collection Click image to enlarge. The area now known as Wakapuaka was...

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• The scandalous Chieftain

  In the days when Nelson was more like a remote English village than a real New Zealand town, the settlers got pretty excited over the arrival of a...

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• The Brownlees enterprise

  William Brownlee, and later his son John's, sawmilling enterprise was far more of a struggle than most reports suggest. The Brownlee family, with a number of close relatives, who...

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• Tākaka Hill tracks and roads

  This story provides additional information about early access over Tākaka Hill.[the-lime-and-marble-of-takaka-hill/] Takaka Hill[assets/Your_stories/Takaka-Hill.jpg]Climber: Tākaka Hill Road by chillicheese (Flickr image). Click to enlarge George Murray and party left Riwaka 25 April 1844...

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