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• Nelson College for Girls

  Secondary education for Nelson’s girls took a while While Nelson’s pioneering fathers (and no doubt mothers) supported the idea of college education for girls, it was to be 27...

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• Early Pastoralism in Marlborough

  Marlborough's earliest pastoral history was one of initial squatter land occupation, battling the twin scourges of rabbits and sheep scab, and eventually, compulsory division of the huge sheep runs...

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• Kate Edger

  After pressure from local women and governors, Nelson College for Girls opened its gates on Friday, February 2, 1883. At the time there were only two other state...

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• School Bugs

  Train No. 1 left Belgrove at 7:20 am, arriving in Nelson just in time for school.  Originally intended as transport for people with produce to sell in town,...

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• New Zealand’s first game of rugby

  The crowd of Nelsonians gathered at The Botanics one May day in 1870 had no idea that they were witnessing the birth of a New Zealand tradition, rugby.....  ...

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