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• Sergeant John Nash

  The Police Act 1886 established New Zealand's first national, civil, police force. Sergeant John Nash of Nelson was the first non-commissioned member appointed to this Force on 1 September...

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• Richmond's Sparrow Plague

  Peril and Pennies from the Skies In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a growing threat to Richmond’s prosperity darkened the skies. A small number of house sparrows – as...

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• John and Ann Doidge nee Branton

  *Seaview Cemetery Block  24, Plot  475 * John and Ann (née Branton) Doidge, pioneer immigrants from Launceston in Cornwall, England, arrived in Nelson on board the Inchinnan in 1856...

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• Enoch and Ann Jellyman and nephew Enoch Jellyman

  *Seaview Cemetery. Block 24, plot 477.* Enoch and Ann Jellyman1 arrived in Nelson on the Bolton[http://www.museumnp.org.nz/early-settlers/voyageDetails.aspx?voyageid=8] in 1842. They settled in Poormans, now Marsden, Valley, as tenants.2 jellyman The Jellyman headstone at...

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• Nelson and Women’s Suffrage

  The Women’s Suffrage Petition of 1893, which was a major contributor to the success of the Electoral Act in that same year, giving women the right to vote,...

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