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• Asbestos and the Chaffeys

  A place to hide was what the Chaffeys sought when they moved to the Cobb Valley in Nelson's remote northwest mountains. It was their desire for solitude, and...

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• George Batt -Drover and Bullocky

  *Drover and Bullocky* George Batt (1854-1931) was born in the Waimea Plains area near Nelson, the sixth child of John and Ann Batt who had emigrated from Hampshire in...

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• Reservoir Creek Richmond

  A history of early European settlement The European colonisation of Nelson (including Waimea East) was conceived and planned by the New Zealand Company[sitetree_link,id=113] in London at the beginning of the...

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• Charles Lowe

  It was a tiny bright red fruit that first drew entrepreneur, inventor and farmer Charles Lowe to Riwaka in 1900.1 Fresh off a contract handling horses for the...

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• Croucher's Flour Mill and Bakehouse

  In 1873 the view across Queen Street was very different from what you see today. A large flour mill stood where the Richmond Mall is now. In front...

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