Search Results

You searched for Nelson Provincial Council

All words containing three letters or less are ignored

• Picton Hospitals

  The first Picton hospital was built on the hill overlooking Waikawa Road and the Lagoon in 1865.  A character called 'Ned the Bellman' (Edward Allen Davis) died earlier...

  Read more about "Picton Hospitals"...
  
  
• Nelson Anniversary Day

  Nelson Anniversary Day The early European settlers celebrated anniversary day in fine style on various days throughout February. In fact the anniversary commemorates the arrival of the first New Zealand...

  Read more about "Nelson Anniversary Day"...
  
  
• John and Ann Doidge nee Branton

  *Seaview Cemetery Block  24, Plot  475 * John and Ann (née Branton) Doidge, pioneer immigrants from Launceston in Cornwall, England, arrived in Nelson on board the Inchinnan in 1856...

  Read more about "John and Ann Doidge nee Branton"...
  
  
• Early Renwick

  *Scottish town on the Wairau Plain * Scotsman, Dr Thomas Renwick, was the ship's surgeon on the Thomas Harrison, which arrived in Nelson in 1842. He bought Dumgree in the Awatere in 1848,...

  Read more about "Early Renwick"...
  
  
• Waimea Plains

  From Grain and Cows... to Vegetables and Wine Over the years land use on the Waimea Plains has changed to meet changing markets and lifestyles. In the early...

  Read more about "Waimea Plains"...