Search Results

You searched for settlers

All words containing three letters or less are ignored

• Pakihi - Māori and Business

  Māori started trading with Europeans from the late 18th Century: with Captain Cook’s crews in the 1770s, Bellingshausen’s Russian expedition in 1820, D'Urville’s officers and men in 1827, and whalers and sealers in the 1820s...

  Read more about "Pakihi - Māori and Business"...
  
  
• Havelock's General Store

  The colourful store building painted with tuataras in Havelock’s main street has a long history. The building dates back to the 1870's and was built with high quality milled...

  Read more about "Havelock's General Store"...
  
  
• Albert Nalder

  Albert McCormack Nalder was born on the 12th April 1891 at Motupipi, Golden Bay.  His parents were Thomas William Nalder and Mary McCormick. At age five Albert lived with...

  Read more about "Albert Nalder"...
  
  
• Pioneers Park

  Opened officially as Pioneers Park in 1929, the name unofficially dropped the 's' in the mid-1930s and today is known by both names. Over the decades the Park...

  Read more about "Pioneers Park"...
  
  
• Shipping and trade on the Ōpaoa River

  At one time, Picton was described as Marlborough's front door and the Ōpaoa/Opawa River as the tradesmen's entrance, but in the early days of European settlement, river trade was...

  Read more about "Shipping and trade on the Ōpaoa River"...