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• Kupe and the Boulder Bank

  The distinctive Boulder Bank protecting Nelson Haven, known to Māori as Te Taero o Kereopa or Te Tahuna a Tama-i-ea, was named to commemorate exploits during Kupe's visit...

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• German Settlement in Nelson

  Nelson's earliest German settlers faced disappointment and hardship and were driven away from the Moutere Valley by poor soil and constant floods. The close-knit, industrious communities re-established themselves on...

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• The Parihaka Prophets in Nelson

  In the 1860s and 1870s Taranaki Maori were troubled by Government determination to enforce European settlement of traditional lands. Promised reserves did not eventuate, and by 1866 dispossessed Maori...

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• Education in Nelson - timeline

  The Nelson Province played an important role in the history of New Zealand education. It was the first Province to initiate free public education, based on Matthew Campbell's[matthew-campbell/] secular school system, which became the...

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• Italians in Nelson

  Wakapuaka Cemetery in Nelson holds a number of graves of members of the early Italian community in Nelson[la-bella-vita/].  Discovering the life stories of some of those people, provides us...

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