Search Results

You searched for Marlborough Sounds

All words containing three letters or less are ignored

• Lake Grassmere

  When Kupe circumnavigated New Zealand, c. 900 AD, Māori tradition is that he was obstructed by the inhabitants in the vicinity of, what is now, Lake Grassmere.  In...

  Read more about "Lake Grassmere"...
  
  
• Early Jewish Settlement in Nelson

  Jewish traders were recorded in New Zealand as early as 1829 -  probably sealers and whalers[marlborough-sounds-whaling/]. Settlers arrived with the New Zealand Company[new-zealand-company/], established in 1839 by Edward Gibbon Wakefield...

  Read more about "Early Jewish Settlement in Nelson"...
  
  
• Viv Broughton, QSM

  Vivien Mary Broughton has lived all her life in Blenheim. She has contributed to the well-being of countless people. This was acknowledged in 2011 when, aged sixty-two, she...

  Read more about "Viv Broughton, QSM"...
  
  
• Power to the People

  Early in the 20th century Marlborough, like the rest of the top of the South, was isolated from the national grid and the lack of bulk electricity was...

  Read more about "Power to the People"...
  
  
• James Sinclair

  Fiery, ambitious Scotsman was ‘King of the Beaver’ Born in Caithness, in the north of Scotland,1 James Sinclair was described as a clear-headed, strong-minded Scotsman, who, by his dominating...

  Read more about "James Sinclair"...