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• Place names of Nelson

  When we stroll around the streets of Nelson, it is difficult to imagine what they would have been like 160 years ago.  The worn down tracks which have...

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• Pioneers Park

  Opened officially as Pioneers Park in 1929, the name unofficially dropped the 's' in the mid-1930s and today is known by both names. Over the decades the Park...

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• William Moore. Nelson First Public School Teacher

  Life was pleasant for the local school master of Tannadice in the quiet countryside around Forfarshire, Scotland in 1840. William Moore and his wife Isobel lived in a...

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• Newsletter 5

  The Prow Newsletter, Issue 5, Summer/Autumn 2011 Kōrero from  Prow resources[#digdeep]Finding wom[#women]en in HIStory[#women]Digital storehouse[#digital]Follow us on Twitter[#twitter]The 2010 top ten[#topten] Download the newsletter as PDF It's Our Second Anniversary! In...

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• Piki mai

  The hilltop overlooking Whakatü is known to Mäori as Piki mai, which translates as ‘climb hither'. Piki mai was a staging point for the pakohe[pakohe-argillite/] (argillite) industry, the nearest...

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