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• Dr William Edward Redman

  Picton and the Sounds have always attracted a good number of 'characters', and one was Dr William Edward Redman, who arrived from London with his wife Charlotte in...

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• HMS New Zealand visits Picton

  In 1913, Picton was visited by the largest warship that had ever come to New Zealand, the HMS New Zealand. HMS New Zealand visits Picton HMS New Zealand visits...

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• Picton Bloaters

  Sardines, pilchards, herring – the famous ‘Picton Bloaters’ were variously called all of these names. From earliest settlement there were huge seasonal shoals of them in Queen Charlotte Sound,...

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• Marlborough's first newspaper

  Timothy Millington and George Coward, two Englishmen who came to Marlborough via Australia and Nelson, started the Marlborough Province’s first newspaper in Blenheim, or the Beaver, on 6 January...

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• Ropoama's Spring

  Ropoama Te One, a rangatira of Te Ātiawa[http://teatiawa.iwi.nz/], was one of the signatories to the Treaty of Waitangi, and one of the main signatories to the Waitohi Purchase, by...

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