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• Settlement in Stoke

  Stoke was once a swampy area with numerous small streams. When Maori arrived in this area, it was a wetland with numerous streams draining water from the hills...

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• Alton Street

  Maori heritage The earliest human footprints across the Mahitahi floodplain, upon which Nelson City now sits, belong to the tangata whenua  and manawhenua tribes of Whakatu[whats-in-a-name-wakatu-or-whakatu/]. What is now Alton Street...

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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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• George Fairweather Moonlight

  Good as Gold Legends clung around George Moonlight, from the provenance of his unusual names- it was rumoured he was born on a fine night (Fairweather), abandoned and found...

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• Resolution Bay or Atapu

  It has been suggested that the Māori name for this bay should perhaps be O-Tapu, (a sacred place) or Ata-po (early dawn). Captain Cook[sitetree_link,id=140] named it Shag Cove, but...

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