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• Albert Branton Doidge

  Eight Stoke men are known to have died fighting in World War One.  Seven of these are listed on the Stoke Memorial Gates[http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/stoke-memorial-gates], but Albert, for some reason is...

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• Fleeing war torn Italy

  Post World War II Italian immigration to Nelson The desire to leave war-torn Europe resulted in a wave of post-World War II Italian immigration to New Zealand in...

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• Maurice Gee

  Esteemed writer calls Nelson home Maurice Gee was once described by Britain’s Sunday Times as ‘one of the finest writers at work, not only in New Zealand…but in the...

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• Athletics at Trafalgar Park

  Trafalgar Park has changed a lot from the days where its sole occupants were sheep. The sheep were removed for the first time on February 28, 1898, in...

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• Georgina Penny, signatory

  Georgina Penny (nee Blaymires), was born in 1868, the second daughter of Robert, a Picton settler, and Kate (nee Murray) Blaymires. Her grandparents were assisted immigrants who arrived in...

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