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• Kōura - Māori and Gold

  The goldrushes In 1857 there were 1,300 Pakeha and 600 Māori digging in the Aorere district[aorere-gold/], New Zealand's first real goldrush. The influx had a profound effect on tangata...

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• Alton Street

  Māori heritage The earliest human footprints across the Mahitahi floodplain, upon which Nelson City now sits, belong to the tangata whenua  and manawhenua tribes of Whakatū. What is now Alton Street...

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• John Waring Saxton

  Diarist and settler John Saxton, his wife Priscilla, five children and other family members (including his brother the Rev. Charles Saxton) arrived in Nelson Haven on the Clifford on 11...

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• Rangitahi Hanigan

  Waikato Taniwha rau, He piko he taniwha, he piko he taniwha, he piko he taniwha! Rangitahi Hanigan, 1948 - 2009, hailed from Ngāti Wairere and Ngāti Haua of the...

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• Thomas Cawthron

  A self-made man who used his considerable fortune to make many gifts to his adopted city, Nelson. Thomas Cawthron has left many enduring legacies, including the Church steps...

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