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• Buxton and Company Nelson Merchants

  E. Buxton & Co Merchants was an importing and exporting business, selling everything from apple trees to firearms, women's hosiery to sausage skins. The business, first opened in 1855,...

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• Suffragettes

  A woman who concealed her true identity under the pen name Femina was New Zealand’s pioneer suffragist. A few years later the founding principal of Nelson College for...

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• Nelson Anniversary Day

  Nelson Anniversary Day The early European settlers celebrated anniversary day in fine style on various days throughout February. In fact the anniversary commemorates the arrival of the first New Zealand...

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• Friends of the Nelson Library Inc

  When Nola Leov first moved to Nelson in the late 1980s, the library[nelson-public-libraries/] was in a sad state. A new library building was desperately needed. Councillor Elma Turner[elma-turner/]’s decades of effort were finally...

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• New Zealand’s first game of rugby

  The crowd of Nelsonians gathered at The Botanics one May day in 1870 had no idea that they were witnessing the birth of a New Zealand tradition, rugby.....  ...

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