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• Elma Turner

  *Elma Frances Turner, M.B.E, 1904-1991* Elma Turner, known as ‘Tilly’ to close friends and family, moved to Nelson from Palmerston North when she was appointed as a geography teacher...

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• Charles and Rose Campbell

  *Seaview Cemetery Block 10, Plot 199 & 200* Charles Cameron Campbell was born 9 April 1893 at Blue Spur, Gabriels Gully, Lawrence, Central Otago. He married Rose Agnes Fisher...

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• The Murchison Earthquake

  *Shaky Ground* For centuries before Europeans arrived, Māori had experienced rū whenua - ‘the shaking of the land'. According to Māori tradition, earthquakes are caused by the god Rūaumoko (or...

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• William Moore. Nelson First Public School Teacher

  Life was pleasant for the local school master of Tannadice in the quiet countryside around Forfarshire, Scotland in 1840. William Moore and his wife Isobel lived in a...

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• Trooper Ralph Vincent James and his Monument

  Collingwood lad, Trooper Ralph Vincent James 2483, died of enteric fever (typhoid fever) on 20 November 1900 at Zeerust Transvaal, South Africa while serving in the Boer War[http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/south-african-boer-war/introduction] for the...

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