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• The New Zealand Company, Nelson Settlement and the Tenths Reserves

  The New Zealand Land Company, commonly known as the New Zealand Company, was a commercial colonising enterprise formalised in England in 1837.  Its intention was to buy tracts of land...

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• Colleen Twin QSM

  1983-1992 Waimea County Councillor 1983-1989 Tasman District Councillor 1989-1992   Colleen Twin Colleen Twin 31 December 1993. Nelson Provincial Museum, Nelson Mail Collection: C17936. Because I had been involved in many activities...

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• Tasman Education Timeline

  *Education in Tasman  * The Nelson Province played an important role in the history of New Zealand education. It was the first Province to initiate free public education, based on Matthew Campbell's secular school system, which became...

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• Tuia 250

  tuia logo Tuia 250 Tuia 250 commemorates 250 years since the first onshore meetings between Māori – tangata whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand – and Pākehā in 1769–70. Tuia 250 also celebrates...

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• Samuel Kirkpatrick and the Canning Factory

  Samuel Kirkpatrick (1854-1925) grew up in Ireland, was educated in Liverpool and emigrated to California, where he worked in the wholesale tea business and fruit processing factories. In January...

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