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• The Greig Brother's of Dillons Point; Early Settlers of Beaver Station

  Settlers came from all walks of life and all nations when the New Zealand Company[sitetree_link,id=113] began promoting farmlands ripe for the picking in Aotearoa. Two Scottish boys, aged in...

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• Settlement in Stoke

  Stoke was once a swampy area with numerous small streams. When Māori arrived in this area, it was a wetland with numerous streams draining water from the hills...

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• Ngawhatu Hospital, Orphanage and Valley

  *The Orphanage Era of Ngawhatu Valley* Orphanage stream in in Stoke takes its name from a Roman Catholic home for boys which was once sited in the Ngawhatu Valley.  Commonly called...

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• The Hill Family of Nelson - history and connections

  Mary Ann Draisey didn’t just decide to make the journey to other side of the world on a whim. Like many other young women, she took the chance...

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• Nelson's Public Art

  Nelson has a range of public art works, many, but not all, of them located in the central city area.  Millers Acre art millers acre vessel The Vessel...

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