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• Takaka Hill tracks and roads

  This story provides additional information about early access over Takaka Hill.[the-lime-and-marble-of-takaka-hill/] Takaka Hill[assets/Your_stories/Takaka-Hill.jpg]Climber: Takaka Hill Road by chillicheese (Flickr image). Click to enlarge George Murray and party left Riwaka 25 April 1844...

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• Nelson Hospital

  The development of health services Nelson’s first hospital was a lean-to attached to the barracks built on Church Hill[sitetree_link,id=359] in the 1840s. Various private cottage hospitals provided rudimentary medical services...

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• Seddon Earthquakes of 2013

  Marlborough is no stranger to earthquakes, sitting as it does on its own fault system[http://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/Learning/Science-Topics/Earthquakes/Major-Faults-in-New-Zealand], lying at the boundary of the Alpine Fault and the Kermadec Trench. seddon earthquakes geonet...

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• Wiremu Kingi Te Koihua

  Te Koihua, who was the chief of Pakawau, Mohua (Golden Bay), spanned the decades between authentic Māori lifestyle and the new society resulting from colonisation and European settlement.  He...

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• St Marys Boys Orphanage Cemetery

  St Marys Boys Orphanage Cemetery, Ngawhatu, Stoke Nelson St Marys Boys Orphanage was blessed and opened on 18 August 18861 by Bishop Francis Redwood. The New Zealand Government paid...

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