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• Sir Stanley Whitehead

  Sir Stanley Austin Whitehead (1907-1976),  Knight Bachelor of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and Speaker of the NZ House of Representatives from 1972-1976,  is best known...

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• Farm Settlements for Returned Soldiers

  During World War I (1914-1918) the NZ government decreed that soldiers returning from overseas service would be given the opportunity to settle on farms of their own, specially purchased...

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• Nelson's early settlement

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

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• The Tetley Affair

  Joseph Tetley, a swindler and a gentleman Marlborough was shaken by a scandal in the 1860s, when a Member of Parliament ran off to South America with £40,000 of...

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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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