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• Ngawhatu Hospital

  *Ngawhatu Hospital… Home or nightmare?* Ngawhatu Valley was the site of an orphanage, industrial school, and later a psychiatric hospital[sitetree_link,id=983]. St Mary's Orphanage operated from 1886-1919. Ngawhatu Psychiatric Hospital operated from...

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• Edward Baigent - father of many mills

  The mill which Edward Baigent built at Ryversdale, at the entrance to Pigeon Valley[http://www.google.co.nz/maps/place/Pigeon+Valley,+Tasman+7025/@-41.3992349,173.0398135,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x6d3ba27cd64e6969:0x936e74b826a0f3b0] in 1855, was not the first he had built in the Wakefield[sitetree_link,id=430] area, nor was it...

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• The Gathering dance festival

  The Gathering dance festival was first held on New Years Eve in 1996 amongst the limestone karst, beech forests and rocky outcrops of the Canaan Downs on Tākaka Hill....

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• Nelson Street Names

  When the first settlers arrived in Nelson in 1841 under the Wakefield Company settlement plan, the first committee they set up was the street naming committee. Unfortunately it proved...

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• Nellie Nightingale

  Ellen, later known as Nellie, was born in Auckland on the 24th February 1876.  She was the daughter of Thomas and Alice Jones. She was 32 when she...

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