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• International football comes to Nelson

  When the History-making Australian football team played in Nelson Just weeks before New Zealand played Australia in its first ever football international 100 years ago, the visiting team had played...

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• Nelson Arts Festival

  The Nelson Arts Festival is a well-loved event in Nelson, presenting a series of unmissable  experiences for, and with, the people of Te Tauihu and beyond. Arts Festival 1977...

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• John Sharp 1828 - 1919

  Born in Kent, England, John Sharp (1829-1919) emigrated to New Zealand in 1843 in the ship Ursula and was initially clerk to the New Zealand Company[new-zealand-company/] agent, Frances Dillon Bell[francis-dillon-bell/]. By the 1850s,...

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• Tarakohe Cement

  Golden Bay / Mohua, now known for its pristine coastline and National Parks, was once home to a wide range of industries, many of which have now gone....

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• Curious Cove

  Kahikatea Bay, in Tōtaranui/ Queen Charlotte Sound in the Marlborough Sounds,  is named for the giant trees which once grew there, down to the shoreline. Te Ātiawa o Te Wakaa-Māui...

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