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• Plane crash at Takaka

  Max Heath survived World War II as a fighter pilot, came home to Takaka and not long after, was killed in a plane crash.1 The 25-year-old warrant officer from...

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• Rai Valley

  Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō and Ngāti Kuia occupied the Rai and Pelorus until 1828, when Te Rauparaha's[te-rauparahas-account/] war parties occupied Te Tau Ihu and local Māori were...

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• Nelson's early settlement

  Nelson's early history is a fascinating one, filled with many tales of hardship endured by the early European settlers, who left their homes in England in search of...

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• Trafalgar Park

  The last quarter of the 19th century was a period of stability in Nelson, which had become the busiest provincial port in New Zealand and a major commercial...

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• Nellie Nightingale

  Ellen, later known as Nellie, was born in Auckland on the 24th February 1876.  She was the daughter of Thomas and Alice Jones. She was 32 when she...

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