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• How Brightwater got its name

  "Bright water for me" According to some sources, Brightwater was named after the bright, clear waters of the Wairoa River. In part this may be true, but it seems...

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• Mount Arthur

  Tuao Wharepapa and the land around it Mt Arthur and the Tableland have played host to gold prospectors, graziers, botanists, skiers, trampers, tourists, artists, a Bishop, and Henry and...

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• Robert Tod of Todds Valley

  Merchant, shipbroker and commission agent, Robert Tod, left his home in Glasgow in the 1820s and lived in Egypt prior to coming to New Zealand. He arrived in...

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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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