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• Samuel Stephens

  New Zealand Company Surveyor, Politician and Quaker Samuel Stephens sailed from England on the Whitby in 1841 with Arthur Wakefield, and they became close friends. As they sailed near the...

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• Shipping and trade on the Opawa River

  At one time, Picton was described as Marlborough's front door and the Opawa River as the tradesmen's entrance, but in the early days of European settlement, river trade...

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• The Star and Garter Hotel and the Richmond Volunteer Fire Brigade

  Richmond's Star and Garter Hotel, established in 1845/46 is one of the oldest hotels in New Zealand still operating on its original site and still using (largely) it's...

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• Flooding on the Wairau Plain

  Blenheim and the Wairau floodplain have experienced at least one damaging flood every decade since European settlement. In the early days, floods occurred so often and flood control works...

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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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