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• Nelson Public Libraries

  The Nelson Public Libraries as we know them today consist of the Elma Turner Library[http://www.nelsonpubliclibraries.co.nz/library/opening-hours/elma-turner-library/], Nightingale Memorial Library[sitetree_link,id=440] and  Stoke Library[sitetree_link,id=779]. The Library was one of the first to be established in...

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• Glenhope Pioneers

  The pioneers of the Hope Valley are commemorated by a memorial at Glenhope. The small rock cairn was originally erected by the Owen Women’s Institute in 1935, close to...

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• A communal lifestyle

  During the 1970s, many alternative lifestylers established communes to escape materialism and the pressures of society. They were attracted to rural Tasman and Golden Bay by the beautiful environment,...

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• Friends of the Nelson Library Inc

  When Nola Leov first moved to Nelson in the late 1980s, the library[nelson-public-libraries/] was in a sad state. A new library building was desperately needed. Councillor Elma Turner[elma-turner/]’s decades of effort were finally...

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• Broadsheet Row in Nelson

  Broadsheet was a feminist periodical published in Auckland from 1972 until 1992. It contained news and articles not only about feminist issues such as domestic abuse, birth control and motherhood,...

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