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• Asbestos and the Chaffeys

  A place to hide was what the Chaffeys sought when they moved to the Cobb Valley in Nelson's remote northwest mountains. It was their desire for solitude, and...

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• Maori Rescues

  A role in which Maori distinguished themselves, and to which they seemed to be particularly well-suited by their courage and physical prowess, was rescuing people in distress.  One rescue  occurred...

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• Maori and Business

  Maori started trading with Europeans from the late 18th Century:  with Cook’s crews in the 1770s, Bellingshausen’s Russian expedition in 1820, D'Urville’s officers and men in 1827, and whalers and sealers in the 1820s and...

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• The Native Tenths Reserves

  The New Zealand Company, a private company formed in Britain and supported by the British Government, established a colonisation scheme for New Zealand in the 1840's. The Company wanted...

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• What’s in a name – Wakatu or Whakatu?

  Many Maori 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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