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• Young Eric Rennell

  Joseph (Teddy) and Elizabeth Rennell lived in the Wairau Valley for most of their married lives. Teddy was a farmer and musterer who had come over to Marlborough...

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• Tākaka's Second and Third Libraries

  TakakaServiceCentre The Council building on Commercial Street, Tākaka. The library was housed in a dark and small office on the right hand side of the door. On 3 June...

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• Ben Crisp and the Band of Hope

  Ben Crisp was a reformed drunkard who took an abstinence pledge in 1843, inspired by the sermons of teetotaler and Temperance Society leader Alfred Saunders. He was born in London, England, probably on...

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• Nelson's Signal Station and the Time Gun

  Britannia Heights in Nelson was once known as Signal Hill.  The Songer tree, a Sequoiadendron giganteum, now marks the site from which the state of the tide was signalled to incoming vessels and...

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• Helen Davies

  Nelson City Councillor 1977- 1980   My husband Richard and I were very involved with the Values Party (forerunner of the Green Party). I was asked if I would allow...

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