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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[sitetree_link,id=983]. St Mary's Orphanage operated from 1886-1919. Ngawhatu Psychiatric Hospital operated from...

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• Protecting Nelson Haven

  Public pressure and commonsense saved Nelson Haven A large part of Nelson Haven might have been ‘a place of sprawling ribbon development’ on reclaimed land at Wakapuaka, if a...

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• Joy Cowley

  Joy Cowley with cod. c.2000. Picture from http://www.joycowley.com/Click image to enlarge It's raining in the Marlborough Sounds after weeks of hot dry weather and New Zealand's favourite grandma of children's...

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• Nelson Street Names

  When the first settlers arrived in Nelson in 1841 under the Wakefield Company settlement plan, the first committee they set up was the street naming committee. Unfortunately it proved...

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