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• Protecting Te Paruparu

  Public pressure and commonsense saved Te Paruparu/Nelson Haven A large part of Nelson Haven might have been ‘a place of sprawling ribbon development’ on reclaimed land at Wakapuaka, if a...

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• St John's Methodist Church Nelson

  A Wesleyan Church, the first Church built in Nelson, was opened in 1843 on the corner of Haven Road and Rutherford Street. This building was sold in 1857...

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• St Marys Catholic Church Nelson

  The first Catholic Mass in Nelson was held in May 1844. The Church’s first chapel was built on Sion Hill (now Shelbourne Street) at a cost of £40. In...

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• Nelson Public Libraries

  The Nelson Public Libraries as we know them today consist of the Elma Turner Library[http://www.nelsonpubliclibraries.co.nz/library/opening-hours/elma-turner-library/], Nightingale Memorial Library[sitetree_link,id=440] and  Stoke Library[sitetree_link,id=779]. The Library was one of the first to be established in...

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• Early Jewish Settlement in Nelson

  Jewish traders were recorded in New Zealand as early as 1829 -  probably sealers and whalers[marlborough-sounds-whaling/]. Settlers arrived with the New Zealand Company[new-zealand-company/], established in 1839 by Edward Gibbon Wakefield...

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