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• Whekenui Leading Lights

  One of the sites recently added to the Marlborough District Council’s Heritage Register is the Tory Channel Leading Lights, plus a former oil store, at Whekenui (part of Okukari...

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• Wiremu Kīngi Te Koihua

  Te Koihua, who was the chief of Pakawau, Mohua (Golden Bay), spanned the decades between authentic Māori lifestyle and the new society resulting from colonisation and European settlement.  He...

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• Picton and Blenheim's Literary Institutes

  New Zealand's early European colonists soon established a range of associations and organisations, including debating and literary societies, libraries and mechanics' institutes.1 Picton Picton Library. Marlborough Historical Society. Marlborough Museum Archives Click...

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• Ring out those bells

  The name of Edward Edridge will always be associated in Nelson with Wai-iti School and the company of bell-ringers he established there in the 1880's.  Born in Westrip, Stroud...

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• Motueka and early settlement

  Around 1839-1840, the Ngāti Rārua and Te Ātiawa people living in the Motueka region heard that a European settlement was likely to be established there and realised this offered ...

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