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• Wangapeka Gold

  Gold was known in the Wangapeka district from the late 1850s.1  However, although an award was paid in 1861 to prospectors for the discovery of gold in the area,...

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• Poiwhai, Punawai and Mānuka Island

  Frederick Tuckett’s 1842 map of the Nelson Settlement shows in yellow 100 of the 1,100 one-acre Nelson Town Sections surveyed for Nelson Town.  These were the New Zealand Company’s...

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• Place names of Nelson

  When we stroll around the streets of Nelson, it is difficult to imagine what they would have been like 160 years ago.  The worn down tracks which have...

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• Dick Roberts

  Photographer, teacher and experimental farmer, Dick Roberts, is regarded as a leader of the organic and alternative lifestyle movement in New Zealand.  He came from England to New Zealand...

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• Nelson brewing family

  The story of the Duncans and the Founders Brewery Breweries were among the earliest businesses established after the settlement of Nelson began in 1842. Poalo and Pelham were the...

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