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• The New Zealand Company, Nelson Settlement and the Tenths Reserves

  The New Zealand Land Company, commonly known as the New Zealand Company, was a commercial colonising enterprise formalised in England in 1837.  Its intention was to buy tracts of land...

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• The Saxton legacy

  Bridging Nelson City and Tasman District, Saxton Field[http://nelson.govt.nz/recreation/venues-and-grounds/saxton-field/saxton-field-history/] is a major regional sporting facility, but the land it sits on used to be part of a large farm originally...

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• Captain F.G. Moore

  Captain Frederick George Moore was not a great man and never claimed to be. He was blamed for sinking the Fifeshire[wreck-of-the-fifeshire/] and was involved with many failed ventures, but...

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• Australasia's First Superstar - Tex Morton

  Amongst the rose bushes at Nelson’s Marsden Valley Cemetery can be found the humble brass plaque that reads “A millionaire in the experience of life”. It marks the remains...

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• The Hale family and the second Colonial landscape

  The work of early nurserymen can be seen in Nelson and all over New Zealand. Their work marks significant milestones,  from the Queen’s Jubilee[http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/anniversaries/page-1] to the commemoration of the lives...

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