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Pakihi - Māori and Business
Māori started trading with Europeans from the late 18th Century: with Captain Cook’s crews in the 1770s, Bellingshausen’s Russian expedition in 1820, D'Urville’s officers and men in 1827, and whalers and sealers in the 1820s...
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John Kidson 1808-1875
Gardener, Nelson settler, participant in Wairau Affray and New Zealand Company agitator John and Amelia Kidson both had secure jobs in England - he was a gardener at the...
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Ferdinand Hochstetter
Just how did a German geologist come to survey the Nelson region's mineral resources, gift a major mineral and fossil collection to the Nelson Institute and lay the...
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The Southern Cross at Woodbourne
*The Southern Cross Arrives to a Tumultuous Welcome in September 1928* Alongside the aeroplane Southern Cross Alongside the aeroplane Southern Cross [Woodbourne], 1928 Alexander Turnbull Library, 1/2-022623-F [Permission of...
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Wreck of the Queen Bee
The Queen Bee was a wooden barque of between 700 and 800 tons. A fine, roomy ship, she was one of the earliest vessels to bring immigrants to...
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