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• Searching for Metapere

  It is now more than 15 years since Kate Mitchell published an account of the search for a Māori tupuna in the family, who turned out to be...

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• Richmond's Sparrow Plague

  Peril and Pennies from the Skies In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a growing threat to Richmond’s prosperity darkened the skies. A small number of house sparrows – as...

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• Maternity care in Nelson - Te Rangi Hospital

  Te Rangi Hospital, where hundreds of Nelsonians drew their first breath, opened in 1915. The hospital was located on Collingwood Street, on the block between New and Halifax Streets,...

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• Nelson City Council - the origins

  The first Nelson Provincial Council was elected in 1853 and housed in the large Provincial Council buildings in Bridge St (near the current Nelson Courthouse) from around 1859. The...

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• New Zealand Company

  The New Zealand Company, a commercial enterprise formed in Britain, dispatched an expedition to establish its second New Zealand settlement, to be named Nelson, in 1841. New Zealand Company...

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