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• 135 Tasman Street

  135 Tasman Street is a Colonial cottage, built approximately 1864, with a category 2 Heritage listing. *The area* Tasman Street is named for the Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman[sitetree_link,id=84]. This street...

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• Streets and Quays of Port Nelson

  What's in a Name?   Have you ever wondered about the naming of streets and quays around the port? Some names honour chairmen of the Nelson Harbour Board and...

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• The New Zealand Company, Nelson Settlement and the Tenths Reserves

  The New Zealand Land Company, commonly known as the New Zealand Company, was a commercial colonising enterprise formalised in England in 1837.  Its intention was to buy tracts of land...

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• Te Rauparaha’s Account of the Wairau Affray

  The Wairau Affray, as it has become known, resulted in the deaths of twenty-two Europeans, including Arthur Wakefield and Henry Thompson. Four Māori are known to have died:...

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• John Sylvanus Cotterell

  Surveyor, settler, explorer If John Cotterell had not been killed, in the Wairau Affray,  at the tender age of 23, it is likely he would have become a person...

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