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• The Parihaka Prophets in Nelson

  In the 1860s and 1870s Taranaki Maori were troubled by Government determination to enforce European settlement of traditional lands. Promised reserves did not eventuate, and by 1866 dispossessed Maori...

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• Elliott Street heritage precinct

  Elliott Street in Nelson is one of the earliest, and most complete examples, of state housing in New Zealand.  The special heritage area includes homes that date from the 1860s...

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• St Mary's convent

  *Our once fine French edifice 1* The Convent of the Immaculate Conception sat at the top of the Manuka Street hill from 1892 to 1983.  It was a...

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• Kate (Kathleen) Light BA, JP(retired)

  Motueka Borough Councillor 1977-1980 and 1986-1989 and Tasman District Councillor 1989-1992   'A Woman's Place is in the House' (of Representatives) was a slogan from the Women's Movement of the...

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• Cawthron Institute

  It was a love of science and the foresight of a Nelson philanthropist, Thomas Cawthron, that led to the establishment of an institute that is now a world...

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