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• Elma Turner MA MBE

  Nelson City Councillor 1972 - 1989      Elma Turner Elma Turner 11 June 1983. Nelson Provincial Museum, Nelson Mail Collection: 4092 In 1972, aged 68, Elma (Tilly) Turner began...

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• Dianne Aubin

  *Nelson City Councillor 1974 - 1977* My time spent in Nelson was very short. We moved from Auckland in July 1970 with a 20-month old daughter and an...

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• Hope Saddle Accommodation house

  No remnant of the old Hope Saddle Accommodation building, which was later known as the Moorhouse Creek Accommodation house, now exists, except for a few old fruit trees....

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• Ethene Gibbs

  Motueka Borough Councillor 1977-1986 The daughter of Riwaka tobacco farmers, Ethene Gibbs (nee Dalley-Smith) was born in Motueka and raised in the Riwaka district. She attended Riwaka Primary School and...

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• Gold Point Mining

  In 1872, Charles Greenlaw was prospecting in the Queen Charlotte Sound when he found “auriferous (gold bearing) quartz” on the western side near Picton. This led to the declaration...

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