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• Nelson Street Names

  When the first settlers arrived in Nelson in 1841 under the Wakefield Company settlement plan, the first committee they set up was the street naming committee. Unfortunately it proved...

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• Protecting Te Paruparu

  Public pressure and commonsense saved Te Paruparu/Nelson Haven A large part of Nelson Haven might have been ‘a place of sprawling ribbon development’ on reclaimed land at Wakapuaka, if a...

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• The Nelson Contingent at Parihaka

  *The Nelson Company of Volunteers* In mid-June 1880 the grateful citizens of Nelson and outlying settlements gave prizes to the volunteers for their sharp-shooting at the range. The firing...

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• Over a Century of Hops

  *The Lines Family flow with the Winds of Change* The Lines family have lived on land at Wai-iti for 170 years.  Thomas and his second wife Anne arrived...

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• Edward and Ann Cresswell nee Eyles

  *Seaview Cemetery, Stoke, Block 24: Plot 470 * Seaview Cresswell The gravestone of Edward and Ann Cresswell Edward, aged 15 a labourer, arrived on the Mary Ann[http://www.museumnp.org.nz/early-settlers/voyageDetails.aspx?voyageid=4] in February 1842 along...

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