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• Early Mailboats in the Sounds

  In the past, as today, people living in the Sounds required a postal service.  Picton had a mail service from Wellington as early as 1856, the first Postmaster...

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• Picton's Anzac losses

  Many Picton and Sounds families suffered losses during World War One.  The original Jackson settlers lost four grandchildren.  This is the story of two other families. The Godsiffs John Godsiff,...

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• Wreck of the Penguin

  The worst shipwreck in New Zealand, during the 20th century, happened in Cook Strait and was of the regular passenger ship taking people from Picton to Wellington.   Penguin...

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• Shakespeare Bay

  Shakespeare Bay is a deepwater harbour just to the West of the main Picton harbour, separated by Kaipupu Point, now a wildlife sanctuary. Although there is no record of...

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• Main trunk railway line

  Construction of the South Island Railway:  a Stop-Start Journey Parochialism and politics, the Great Depression and two World Wars meant that completion of the South Island’s Main Trunk Line was...

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