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• The Rise of the Motor Vehicle in Richmond

  In 1923, John Warring (known as Jack) opened a bicycle shop near Queen Street’s intersection with Gladstone Road. Just three years later the growing popularity of motor vehicles led...

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• William Harkness

  *The ideal settler* When William Harkness and his older brother, John, disembarked from the Thomas Sparks[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/ThomasSparks1843.htm] at Nelson on 26th February 1843, it was to be the beginning of a productive...

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• The Tangata Whenua Tribes of Te Tau Ihu

  There are eight iwi which are tangata whenua in Te Tau Ihu - or Te Tauihu as it is now more commonly known: Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Kuia and...

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• Art and Architecture of Trafalgar Street, Nelson

  Trafalgar Street in Nelson lost many of its historic, and iconic, buildings in the 1980’s.  This was a time when there was a drive to modernise cities, and...

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• Making the Cut

  It was a great day in the history of Nelson when the Cut opened on July 30 1906. The report in the Nelson Evening Mail on July 31...

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