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• George Lawrence

  George Lawrence and the elephants of Wakefield The Waimea South Historical Society was recently gifted two intriguing photographs, of elephants bathing in the Wai-iti River and penned beside the...

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• Lily Robertson and the Lighthouse

  My Life by Lily Robertson (1878-1956) Nelson Lighthouse  Excerpt from the Lighthouse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from Lily's diary. Click image to enlarge My birthplace was at the home of...

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• Antonio Wett

  Background Antonio Wett was an early resident of Nelson, arriving there in about 1866.  In the following 44 years, until his death in 1910, he married, had a family...

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• Millers Acre

  Millers Acre, sits beside the Maitai River[maitai-valley/] and is in the heart of, what is now, Nelson City. It has been put to a number of uses over the...

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• Ngawhatu Hospital

  *Ngawhatu Hospital… Home or nightmare?* Ngawhatu Valley was the site of an orphanage industrial school, and later a psychiatric hospital. St Mary's Orphanage[st-marys-boys-cemetery/] operated from 1886-1919. Ngawhatu Psychiatric Hospital operated...

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