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• Laura Ingram, JP, MBE

  Motueka Borough Councillor  1944 - 1947 Photograph of Laura Ingram from Nelson Provincial Museum Laura Ingram, 1977. Nelson Provincial Museum, Geoffrey C Wood Collection: GCW3 3916_fr24.  In 1944 thirty-two year...

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• Wakatu or Whakatu?

  Many Māori names of localities and landscape features are no longer known, and where they have been preserved, the reason for the name may have disappeared in the...

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• Nelson's war memorials

  ANZAC Day on 25 April each year is a time to remember those who died in war.  Nelson has many memorials, which reveal some of the stories of...

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• The Art of Wakefield Quay

  Wakefield Quay  named after Captain Arthur Wakefield[captain-arthur-wakefield/] of the New Zealand Company[new-zealand-company/] was where many early European Settlers first set foot in New Zealand. It  boasts beautiful views of Nelson's...

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• Taonga Pūoro or Singing Treasures

  The first Polynesian settlers in Aotearoa were greeted by a noisy soundscape and a plethora of new materials for making musical instruments.  Centuries later, the botanist Joseph Banks[http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/banks-sir-joseph] described the...

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