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• Te Tau Ihu Māori and the Taranaki Wars

  On 17 March 1860, Government troops attacked the pa Te Kohia at Waitara, North Taranaki, stronghold of Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke of Te Ātiawa  and his followers.  Te Rangitāke...

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• Women's Suffrage

  Suffrage symbol Women's Suffrage 125 symbol Suffrage 125  2018 marks the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand.  On 19 September 1893 the Electoral Act 1893 was passed, giving all...

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• Sugar Tree Cottage 14 South Street

  Sugartree Cottage sits in the South Street, Heritage Precinct of Nelson. It is a Colonial cottage, built in approximately 1864.  *South Street* South Street was originally known as Town Acre...

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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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• Captain Edward Fearon

  The King of Motueka Times were turbulent when one of Motueka’s earliest Pakeha pioneers arrived to take up his newly-bought block of land. Edward Fearon had barely pitched his...

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