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• Murder and suicide at Molesworth

  Bruce Reid 12.00 *The tragic and true story of Ivanhoe Stanley Augarde* In 1866 Ivanhoe Stanley Augarde gained employment on Mr Thomas Carter's sheep station, St Helens, located in...

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• Flaxbourne

  *Life of a pastoral station * Prior to European settlement, there was an abundance of seafood, eels and ducks in the area which was to become the South Island's...

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• Emma Heke

  Director, Film-maker: Red Heke Productions, Nelson Within our small community here in Nelson there are people who are passionately working on projects to inspire and empower, not just our...

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• Nelson's power struggle

  Electricity was not commonly used in New Zealand until late in the 19th Century, with some cities and towns using electricity for street lighting and trams from 1888....

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• First encounters - the Russians in Te Tau Ihu

  On 8 June 1820 (29 May in the Russian calendar), Russian captain Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen (in Russian: Фаддей Фаддеевич Беллинсгаузен; Faddey Faddeyevich Bellinsgauzen) entered Queen Charlotte Sound in the ships Vostớk...

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