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• A.R. Kingsford

  To many of us, the name of Reg Kingsford is familiar as a Nelson photographer from Broma Studios.  However, Alfred Reginald Bellingham Kingsford was also a World War...

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• Motueka and early settlement

  Around 1839-1840, the Ngati Rarua and Te Atiawa people living in the Motueka region heard that a European settlement was likely to be established there and realised this offered ...

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• Marlborough's first newspaper

  Timothy Millington and George Coward, two Englishmen who came to Marlborough via Australia and Nelson, started the Marlborough Province’[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlborough_Province]s first newspaper in Blenheim, or the Beaver[sitetree_link,id=154], on 6 January 1860. This...

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• Bryce Jones

  *Bryce Jones - Nelson City Librarian, 1955-86* Bryce Jones (G.M.B. Jones) played a pivotal role in shaping the Nelson Public Libraries[nelson-public-libraries/] as we know them today, overseeing the transition...

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• Protecting Nelson Haven

  Public pressure and commonsense saved 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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