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• Wreck of the Queen Bee

  The Queen Bee was a wooden barque of between 700 and 800 tons. A fine, roomy ship, she was one of the earliest vessels to bring immigrants to...

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• Croucher's Flour Mill and Bakehouse

  In 1873 the view across Queen Street was very different from what you see today. A large flour mill stood where the Richmond Mall is now. In front...

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• Gold Point Mining

  In 1872, Charles Greenlaw was prospecting in the Queen Charlotte Sound when he found “auriferous (gold bearing) quartz” on the western side near Picton. This led to the declaration...

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• Sid Harling

  Blenheim mayor and ideas man In around 1950, the Harling family, Sid, Mary Grace and their daughter Wendy, settled in Blenheim, having migrated from Canada. New Zealand was not...

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• Trask Memorial Gates Queens Gardens

  Francis Reuben Trask (1840 – 5 April 1910) was a 20th-century Member of the Legislative Council from Nelson[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson,_New_Zealand], New Zealand and Mayor of Nelson[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_Nelson,_New_Zealand].  He also served on the Nelson Harbour...

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