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• St Mary's convent

  *Our once fine French edifice 1* The Convent of the Immaculate Conception sat at the top of the Manuka Street hill from 1892 to 1983.  It was a...

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• Mary Isoline Watson, wandering washerwoman

  Mary Watson, 1906-1968, married at an early age and settled on a farm at Seddon. Here she became Marlborough's first woman motor cycle rider. mary watson Mary Watson. Image supplied...

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• Tākaka's First Library

  On 7th June 1869 the Nelson Evening Mail carried a notice that the ship Icon from London was carrying one case bound for the Tākaka Public Library(1). Where this library was...

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• Nelson School of Music

  A Unique Vision When Nelson's European settlers wanted music, they had to make it themselves. By 1852, the small Nelson community, then numbering more than 2000, had formed a...

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• 1918 Influenza pandemic in Nelson

  The 1918 influenza pandemic has been called "the world's biggest disaster of the twentieth century"1, and its lessons continue to be significant. The outbreak killed more people than World...

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