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• Baton Valley Gold

  *Good as Gold: The Baton* The remote Baton, at the base of Mount Arthur[mount-arthur/] (Tu ao Wharepapa), once had two hotels, a shop, Post Office and a racecourse. It is thought the...

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• Mount Arthur

  Tuao Wharepapa and the land around it Mt Arthur and the Tableland have played host to gold prospectors, graziers, botanists, skiers, trampers, tourists, artists, a Bishop, and Henry and...

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• Lure of gold - Aorere

  A few specks of gold, found in the Aorere Valley by a musterer in October 1856, saw more than 2000 men flood into Massacre Bay over the following...

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• Josephine Lewis

  In 2014 Nelson Youth Council conducted a series of interviews for Heritage Week 2015. They spoke with people involved in areas of health and medicine. This is one...

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• Newman Brothers

  Running a transport service in the days when unformed roads wormed their ways through virgin bush up steep hillsides and across rivers and mountain creeks tested man and...

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