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• The Saxton legacy

  Bridging Nelson City and Tasman District, Saxton Field[http://nelson.govt.nz/recreation/venues-and-grounds/saxton-field/saxton-field-history/] is a major regional sporting facility, but the land it sits on used to be part of a large farm originally...

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• The Hale family and the second Colonial landscape

  The work of early nurserymen can be seen in Nelson and all over New Zealand. Their work marks significant milestones,  from the Queen’s Jubilee[http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/anniversaries/page-1] to the commemoration of the lives...

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• Jesse Ernest Hounsell Memorial Sundial Tahunanui

  The site currently occupied by Natureland[http://www.natureland.nz/] at Tahunanui Beach Reserve[sitetree_link,id=444] is located within an elliptical circle.  You used to be able to drive completely around this circle and it was...

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• Pethybridge Memorial Rose Garden Motueka

  On 26th November 1964, a memorial plaque and rose gardens were dedicated to Charles Edward Pethybridge, by G W Johnston Chairman of the Tobacco[sitetree_link,id=104] companyW.D & H.O Wills (NZ) Ltd[http://www.batnz.com/group/sites/BAT_9VNKQW.nsf/vwPagesWebLive/DO9T5K5C]..  Charles...

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• Rutherford and Pickering at Havelock School

  In the last quarter of the 19th Century and the first quarter of the 20th Century, Havelock School was involved in the early education of two stellar minds,...

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