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• Life on the Fault Lines

  Marlborough's East Coast earthquakes Marlborough’s East Coast is cross hatched with fault lines[http://www.shakeout.govt.nz/marlborough/] so the large earthquakes of 2013 and 2016 should not have been surprising, although it is thought...

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• Edward Laney the baker and his daughter Ann

  In the early years of Nelson life was tough for all. Days were long and hard for the settlers trying to build a town and a new and...

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• Rev. T.D. Nicholson

  The Rev. Thomas Dickson Nicholson was the first Presbyterian Minister of Nelson and Marlborough. Rev. T.D. Nicholson Rev. T.D. Nicholson, Marlborough Museum Click to enlarge He was born at...

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• Early colonial life in Nelson

  Nelson’s early Europeans Who were the first European colonists to Nelson? What kind of people were they? They were tough and inventive.  Nelson’s first European houses were often built from...

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• Marlborough's first newspaper

  Timothy Millington and George Coward, two Englishmen who came to Marlborough via Australia and Nelson, started the Marlborough Province’[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlborough_Province]s first newspaper in Blenheim, or the Beaver[sitetree_link,id=154], on 6 January 1860. This...

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