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• John Waring Saxton

  Diarist and settler John Saxton, his wife Priscilla, five children and other family members (including his brother the Rev. Charles Saxton) arrived in Nelson Haven on the Clifford on 11...

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• Marlborough's wine story

  The expansion of Marlborough's wine industry over the past three decades has changed the face of the province, but even the earliest European settlers saw the potential of...

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• John Sylvanus Cotterell

  Surveyor, settler, explorer If John Cotterell had not been killed, in the Wairau Affray,  at the tender age of 23, it is likely he would have become a person...

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• Ferdinand Hochstetter

  Just how did a German geologist come to survey the Nelson region's mineral resources, gift a major mineral and fossil collection to the Nelson Institute and lay the...

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• Nelson Pottery

  Nelson/ Tasman's ground-breaking pottery There is some evidence that the use of clay may date back to early Māori settlement, but the history of clay use in the Nelson...

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