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• Nelson's Signal Station and the Time Gun

  Britannia Heights in Nelson was once known as Signal Hill.  The Songer tree[sitetree_link,id=579], a Sequoiadendron giganteum,  now marks the site from which the state of the tide was signalled to incoming vessels and the...

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• Collingwood Library

  “At 3 am the Collingwood Institute and Library  ... burned down, nothing being saved. The Institute was an old building but the Library is a new one, and...

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• William Adams

  A leading voice in the separation of the Provinces Eton and Oxford educated barrister, William Adams[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc05Cycl-t1-body1-d2-d2-d2.html] was a leading voice for the Wairau’s discontented settlers and became the province’s first...

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• Judge Conolly

  Lawyer Edward Tennyson Conolly came to New Zealand from Middlesex, England in 1865, and settled in Picton, becoming one of the town’s leading personages.  Conolly.jpg Edward Tennyson...

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• East Takaka Library

    East Takaka Library 1. Library Return for Upper and East Takaka in 1876. Land was surveyed for the East Takaka library in the early 1870s by Charles...

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