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• Broadgreen House

  English settler Edmund Buxton, with his wife and family of six daughters, commissioned architect Mr Beatson and builder Mr Holland to create their home. It was completed about 1855,...

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• Glenhope Pioneers

  The pioneers of the Hope Valley are commemorated by a memorial at Glenhope. The small rock cairn was originially erected by the Owen Women’s Institute in 1935, close to...

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• La Bella Vita - Italians in Nelson

  The first Italians came to the top of the South Island for different reasons, with the majority escaping poverty and a lack of opportunity in their homeland. One of...

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• Maori and Business

  Maori started trading with Europeans from the late 18th Century:  with Cook’s crews in the 1770s, Bellingshausen’s Russian expedition in 1820, D'Urville’s officers and men in 1827, and whalers and sealers in the 1820s and...

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• Maori and education

  Pre-European Maori learned by oral methods which developed strong memory skills and powerful oratory. Early European visitors and settlers admired Maori intelligence. Dieffenbach (1839) wrote: Greenwood, Sarah: The Motueka...

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