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• Captain Edward Fearon

  The King of Motueka Times were turbulent when one of Motueka’s earliest Pakeha pioneers arrived to take up his newly-bought block of land. Edward Fearon had barely pitched his...

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• Phyllis Field

  *Phyllis Field (nee Griffin) 1914-2007 - the early years* Phyllis was born in 1914, the youngest child of George and Caroline Griffin. Her father was manager of the Griffin...

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• The Tetley Affair

  Joseph Tetley, a swindler and a gentleman Marlborough was shaken by a scandal in the 1860s, when a Member of Parliament ran off to South America with £40,000 of...

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• Frederick Trolove

  Trolove of the Clarence Frederick Trolove  (1831-1880) was an early European settler who established Woodbank Run, located north of the Clarence River. Most of what is known about Trolove,...

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• Yelven Oliver Sutton

  Yelven's great grandparents' parents, George and Hannah Sutton arrived in Nelson aboard the Bolton (1842). In 1853 George bought sections 68 and 90 and part of 66 in...

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