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• Main trunk railway line

  Construction of the South Island Railway:  a Stop-Start Journey Parochialism and politics, the Great Depression and two World Wars meant that completion of the South Island’s Main Trunk Line was...

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• La Bella Vita - Italians in Nelson

  The first Italians came to the top of the South Island for different reasons, with the majority escaping poverty and a lack of opportunity in their homeland. One of...

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• Fleeing war torn Italy

  Post World War II Italian immigration to Nelson The desire to leave war-torn Europe resulted in a wave of post-World War II Italian immigration to New Zealand in...

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• The Bishop Suter Art Gallery

  The death of a bishop, and the determination of his widow to found a gallery in his name for the people of Nelson, led to the establishment of...

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• Marlborough Aviation

  Imagine the excitement in August, 1920 when Captain Euan Dickson touched down in his Avro 504K, D6243 on a Dillon's Point (Blenheim) farm. He was en route from...

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