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• WWI index Nelson Anglican Centre Archive

  World War I index - Nelson Anglican Centre Archive The Nelson Branch of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists[https://www.genealogy.org.nz/Nelson_Branch_161.aspx] has indexed the names of people cited in the Nelson...

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• Esther Mary White

  Esther White, 1883-1959, was a Quaker philanthropist who, as the wife of Theodore Rigg[sitetree_link,id=702], settled in Nelson. Esther grew up in a Quaker family in the United States of America....

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• The Mayoral Shop

  The premises at 83-86 Bridge Street in Nelson were the birthplace of the mayoral ambitions of three families. The first owner Moss Davis (1847-1933), an early Nelson Jewish merchant,...

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• Theodore Rigg and World War One

  Theodore Rigg (KBE,  1888-1972) was highly regarded as Director of the Cawthron Institute in Nelson from 1934-1956.  During World War One, as a Quaker,  he devoted himself to philanthropic...

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• Taonga Pūoro or Singing Treasures

  The first Polynesian settlers in Aotearoa were greeted by a noisy soundscape and a plethora of new materials for making musical instruments.  Centuries later, the botanist Joseph Banks[http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/banks-sir-joseph] described the...

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