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• Allports Island

  The correct name for this island, in front of Waikawa Bay, is Motu Ngarara (Lizard Island), although for some years it was known as ‘Goat Island’ when Thomas...

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• Thomas and Sarah Roil

  Thomas and Sarah Roil and five of their children from Alton, Hampshire emigrated to New Zealand on the Bolton, with 350 passengers, arriving in Nelson 15 March 1842....

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• Mussel harvesting in the Marlborough Sounds

  Linkwater farmer John Collins worked up to 23 hours a day when he worked in Marlborough’s mussel industry in the early 1980s.  “In those days the industry was...

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• Edward Baigent - father of many mills

  The mill which Edward Baigent built at Ryversdale, at the entrance to Pigeon Valley[http://www.google.co.nz/maps/place/Pigeon+Valley,+Tasman+7025/@-41.3992349,173.0398135,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x6d3ba27cd64e6969:0x936e74b826a0f3b0] in 1855, was not the first he had built in the Wakefield[sitetree_link,id=430] area, nor was it...

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• Hop Harvest

  *Hop Harvest* March 1st is a significant date in the Nelson district because it heralds the start of the hop harvest.  The hot, dry summer has ripened the flower...

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