Search Results

You searched for World War 2

All words containing three letters or less are ignored

• Motueka and early settlement

  Around 1839-1840, the Ngāti Rārua and Te Ātiawa people living in the Motueka region heard that a European settlement was likely to be established there and realised this offered ...

  Read more about "Motueka and early settlement"...
  
  
• Marlborough's first newspaper

  Timothy Millington and George Coward, two Englishmen who came to Marlborough via Australia and Nelson, started the Marlborough Province’s first newspaper in Blenheim, or the Beaver, on 6 January...

  Read more about "Marlborough's first newspaper"...
  
  
• Bryce Jones

  *Bryce Jones - Nelson City Librarian, 1955-86* Bryce Jones (G.M.B. Jones) played a pivotal role in shaping the Nelson Public Libraries[nelson-public-libraries/] as we know them today, overseeing the transition...

  Read more about "Bryce Jones"...
  
  
• Marian Gunn

  *Marian Gunn – Nelson Library Manager, 1987-2001 * Born in Manhattan, schooled in rural Pennsylvania and attending university in the mid-west of the United States, Marian Gunn travelled extensively...

  Read more about "Marian Gunn"...
  
  
• Nellie Nightingale

  Ellen, later known as Nellie, was born in Auckland on the 24th February 1876.  She was the daughter of Thomas and Alice Jones. She was 32 when she...

  Read more about "Nellie Nightingale"...