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• A P.O.W.'s journey

  Hamish Neale was born in Grove Street, Nelson, in 1914, the middle child of a family of seven. His father owned Neale and Haddow, Grain and Seed Merchants...

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• John Waring Saxton

  Diarist and settler John Saxton, his wife Priscilla, five children and other family members (including his brother the Rev. Charles Saxton) arrived in Nelson Haven on the Clifford on 11...

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• Marlborough's wine story

  The expansion of Marlborough's wine industry over the past three decades has changed the face of the province, but even the earliest European settlers saw the potential of...

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• John Sylvanus Cotterell

  Surveyor, settler, explorer If John Cotterell had not been killed, in the Wairau Affray,  at the tender age of 23, it is likely he would have become a person...

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• Dorothy Matthews ONZM

  Nelson City Councillor  1980 - 1986 I served two terms (1980-1986) on the Nelson City Council, preceded by my husband Bill serving as Councillor and Chairman of Parks and...

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