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• Nelson Historical Society Journal

  [assets/logos/NHSJLogo1.jpg] [assets/logos/nzetc-logo-landscape1.png] Nelson Historical Society Journal  Digitisation of the Nelson Historical Society's journals is a collaborative project between Friends of the Nelson Library and the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre.  The Journal...

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• The first Sharland

  When James Henry Sharland stepped off the John Masterman ship on the 8th February 18571 he had his son James Frederick Sharland and his partner Julia Lazarus at his side....

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• Nelson's early settlement

  Nelson's early history is a fascinating one, filled with many tales of hardship endured by the early European settlers, who left their homes in England in search of...

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• Trooper Leonard Tarrant and his Memorial

  Trooper Leonard Mathews Tarrant and the Tarrant Memorial,  Motueka Quay Leonard Tarrant was born 8 February 1871 to Henry Alexander Tarrant and Katherine, nee Saxon, in Brightwater.  He came to...

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• Flooding on the Wairau Plain

  Blenheim and the Wairau floodplain have experienced at least one damaging flood every decade since European settlement. In the early days, floods occurred so often and flood control works...

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