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• John Sharp 1828 - 1919

  Born in Kent, England, John Sharp (1829-1919) emigrated to New Zealand in 1843 in the ship Ursula and was initially clerk to the New Zealand Company[new-zealand-company/] agent, Frances Dillon Bell[francis-dillon-bell/]. By the 1850s,...

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• Marian Gunn

  *Marian Gunn – Nelson Library Manager, 1987-2001 * Born in Manhattan, schooled in rural Pennsylvania and attending university in the mid-west of the United States, Marian Gunn travelled extensively...

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• Elma Turner

  *Elma Frances Turner, M.B.E, 1904-1991* Elma Turner, known as ‘Tilly’ to close friends and family, moved to Nelson from Palmerston North when she was appointed as a geography teacher...

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• Nellie Nightingale

  Ellen, later known as Nellie, was born in Auckland on the 24th February 1876.  She was the daughter of Thomas and Alice Jones. She was 32 when she...

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• The Nightingale Library Memorial

  The first library in Tāhunanui was housed in a cupboard at the back of the Town Hall  when Tāhunanui was administered by a Town Board. By the 1930's...

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