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• Farm Settlements for Returned Soldiers

  During World War I (1914-1918) the New Zealand Government decreed that soldiers returning from overseas service would be given the opportunity to settle on farms of their own, specially...

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• Ella Bydder

  Takaka Town Board Councillor 1947 -1956 Golden Bay County Councillor 1956 - 1959 Ella Bydder was the first and only woman elected to the Takaka Town Board which was...

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• The Dobson family in early Blenheim history

  Finding women’s first-hand perspectives in history is not easy as they often didn’t live their lives in the public arena with newspaper stories recording their words and achievements. However,...

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• Education in Marlborough

  Marlborough's early schools faced a tough beginning. The first school was established by Nelson settlers but, after separation in 1859, Marlborough's education system suffered from a lack of money....

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• The New Zealand Company, Nelson Settlement and the Tenths Reserves

  The New Zealand Land Company, commonly known as the New Zealand Company, was a commercial colonising enterprise formalised in England in 1837.  Its intention was to buy tracts of land...

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