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• Ligar Bay

  A small Golden Bay settlement, Ligar Bay, is currently divided over a disagreement about the fate of eight small baches built on council land. A licence which permitted...

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• Nayland College - a student's view

  In 1965, the population of Nelson was growing rapidly and the city needed to expand. New residential development meant that new amenities were required, therefore Nayland College was built. ...

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• Early Wakefield

  It is believed that Wakefield (originally known as Pitfure)1 was named after the Yorkshire birthplace of an early settler, William Hough; however it is also widely accepted that the...

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• Tāhuna Beach

  Tāhunanui Beach did not exist when Nelson was settled by Europeans.  What is now the beach was once mudflat near the edge of the main channel draining the...

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• Quakers in Nelson - Quakers Acre Cemetery

  The Society of Friends Quakers, from the earliest days in seventeenth century England, hold strongly to the value of peace. When the founder, George Fox, was asked to enlist...

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