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• Thomas Sullivan

  *Seaview Cemetery, Block 24, Plot 462* Thomas born in Dublin in August 1798. He was the only son in a large Catholic family and was destined for the...

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• Settlement in Stoke

  Stoke was once a swampy area with numerous small streams. When Maori arrived in this area, it was a wetland with numerous streams draining water from the hills...

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• 246 Rutherford Street

  This house, built approximately 1862, is in the early colonial gothic carpenter style, and has a rare, for New Zealand, slate roof. About the area The house is situated in...

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• The Grove Okiwa

  The Grove near Okiwa in the Marlborough Sounds, now flat farmland, was once covered by extensive kahikatea forest. The name Okiwa probably refers to a chief named Kiwa,...

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• Nelson Street Names

  When the first settlers arrived in Nelson in 1841 under the Wakefield Company settlement plan, the first committee they set up was the street naming committee. Unfortunately it proved...

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