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• Yelven Oliver Sutton

  Yelven's great grandparents' parents, George and Hannah Sutton arrived in Nelson aboard the Bolton (1842). In 1853 George bought sections 68 and 90 and part of 66 in...

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• The scandalous Chieftain

  In the days when Nelson was more like a remote English village than a real New Zealand town, the settlers got pretty excited over the arrival of a...

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• George Fairweather Moonlight

  Good as Gold Legends clung around George Moonlight, from the provenance of his unusual names- it was rumoured he was born on a fine night (Fairweather), abandoned and found...

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• The Mahitahi or Maitai River

  The river flowing through Whakatū, or Nelson is commonly known as the Maitai, however this is probably a corruption of its original name of Mahitahi or Maitahi. The...

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• Pā and Kāinga

  Ancient pā and kāinga are scattered across Te Tau Ihu o Waka. European settlers certainly did not arrive in a "barren social and cultural landscape..."1 Webber, John:The inside...

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