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• Joseph Holland

  Joseph Holland (1851-1925) Joseph Henry Holland was a brewer and winemaker, operating on Waimea Road in Bishopdale, Nelson. This  business was initially established  by Mr. J. Chapman, and taken...

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• Early newspapers in Nelson

  Charles Elliott was quite unsuspecting when a friend of his approached him back in 1842, telling him of the "English Country Town"1 in a little place called New...

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• The Nelson Volunteer Fire Brigade

  The early years from 1858-1868 The history of Nelson's early Volunteer Fire Brigade is difficult to trace. The earliest reference dates to September 18581 , when a meeting was...

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• Italians in Nelson

  Wakapuaka Cemetery in Nelson holds a number of graves of members of the early Italian community in Nelson[la-bella-vita/].  Discovering the life stories of some of those people, provides us...

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• Tyree Brothers

  The Tyree brothers, Fred (1867-1924)  and William (1855-1924) were the sons of William Tyree, a shoemaker From Surrey, England, who emigrated to Otago, New Zealand in 1871. William (senior)...

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