Search Results

• Dick Roberts

  Photographer, teacher and experimental farmer, Dick Roberts, is regarded as a leader of the organic and alternative lifestyle movement in New Zealand.  He came from England to New Zealand...

  Read more about "Dick Roberts"...
  
  
• The deer park in Todds Valley 1910-1916

  When settlers arrived in Nelson in 1841 there were no animals or familiar game birds available as a source of food.  Some animals and plants were introduced in...

  Read more about "The deer park in Todds Valley 1910-1916"...
  
  
• Branford Park and the Richardson holdings

  Branford Park lies alongside the northern banks of the cherished Maitai/Mahitahi/Maitahi River close to the city of Nelson. The park has a history of conflicting rights and needs which created...

  Read more about "Branford Park and the Richardson holdings"...
  
  
• Jack Rawson at Gallipoli

  Nelson resident, Dick Rawson, tells the story of his father’s role, as a doctor, in World War I. This is part three of Jack Rawson’s story. Part one...

  Read more about "Jack Rawson at Gallipoli"...
  
  
• Sydney Grey Davis

  Sydney Grey Davis, 1896-1917, is one of the eight Stoke men known to have died in World War One. He is commemorated on the Stoke Memorial Gates[http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/stoke-memorial-gates]. Davis Sydney...

  Read more about "Sydney Grey Davis"...