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• Dun Mountain Railway

  The Dun Mountain Railway was officially opened amidst great fanfare on Monday 3 February, 1862. From the port, across the city, the horse-drawn tramway then climbed from Brook Street...

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• Nelson College for Girls

  Secondary education for Nelson’s girls took a while While Nelson’s pioneering fathers (and no doubt mothers) supported the idea of college education for girls, it was to be 27...

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• Wainui House

  Wainui House stands on the corner of Domett and Nile Streets. The white weatherboard façade on the Nile Street footpath gives no clue to the park-like garden behind...

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• Farm Settlements for Returned Soldiers

  During World War I (1914-1918) the New Zealand Government decreed that soldiers returning from overseas service would be given the opportunity to settle on farms of their own, specially...

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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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