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• Sir Stanley Whitehead

  Sir Stanley Austin Whitehead (1907-1976),  Knight Bachelor of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and Speaker of the NZ House of Representatives from 1972-1976,  is best known...

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• The Tetley Affair

  Joseph Tetley, a swindler and a gentleman Marlborough was shaken by a scandal in the 1860s, when a Member of Parliament ran off to South America with £40,000 of...

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• Baton Valley Gold

  *Good as Gold: The Baton* The remote Baton Valley, at the base of Mount Arthur[mount-arthur/], once had two hotels, a shop, Post Office and a racecourse. It is thought the...

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• St Andrews Church and early Wakapuaka

  Wakapuaka Settlement View of the Bluffs View of The Bluffs, 1890. Nelson Provincial Museum, Tyree Collection Click image to enlarge. The area now known as Wakapuaka was...

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• Early Jewish Settlement in Nelson

  Jewish traders were recorded in New Zealand as early as 1829, and these were probably sealers and whalers[marlborough-sounds-whaling/]. There were a number of Jewish shareholders in the New Zealand Company[new-zealand-company/]...

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