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• School Daze!

  School Daze! My first foray into education was brief -  an hour in fact. Noleen Burton, April 2009 Noleen Burton, April 2009 Born in 1937 in Blenheim, but living...

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• Father Antoine Marie Garin

  On May 9, 1850, Father Antoine Marie Garin arrived in Nelson. During the next 40 years Father Garin would contribute hugely to the development of education in the area...

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• A P.O.W.'s journey

  Hamish Neale was born in Grove Street, Nelson, in 1914, the middle child of a family of seven. His father owned Neale and Haddow, Grain and Seed Merchants...

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• Vinings of Nelson and the motor industry

  When William Graeme Vining boarded a ship bound for New Zealand in 1892 he had no idea where his road to a better life would lead him. W.G....

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• Newman Brothers

  Running a transport service in the days when unformed roads wormed their ways through virgin bush up steep hillsides and across rivers and mountain creeks tested man and...

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