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• The Mahitahi or Maitai River

  The river flowing through Whakatū, or Nelson is commonly known as the Maitai, however this is probably a corruption of its original name of Mahitahi or Maitahi. The...

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• Charles Harrington Broad 1872-1959

  Charles Harrington Broad, was the third of the ten children of Judge Lowther Broad and Isabella Mary (Bunny).1 He was born on 5 Oct 1872 in Nelson and...

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• Poiwhai, Punawai and Mānuka Island

  Frederick Tuckett’s 1842 map of the Nelson Settlement shows in yellow 100 of the 1,100 one-acre Nelson Town Sections surveyed for Nelson Town.  These were the New Zealand Company’s...

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• Mahitahi River

  The traditional name for the river flowing through Nelson City was “Mahitahi”, truncated to “Maitai” from early colonial times.  For centuries the Maitai Valley has been an important access...

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