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• Blenheim, or "The Beaver"

  The Wairau Affray in 1843 badly frightened potential European settlers of the Wairau and it was to be several more years before the Nelson settlers again began to consider...

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• Captain Edward Fearon

  The King of Motueka Times were turbulent when one of Motueka’s earliest Pakeha pioneers arrived to take up his newly-bought block of land. Edward Fearon had barely pitched his...

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• Curious Cove

  Kahikatea Bay, in Tōtaranui/ Queen Charlotte Sound in the Marlborough Sounds,  is named for the giant trees which once grew there, down to the shoreline. Te Ātiawa o Te Wakaa-Māui...

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• Sunnyside and the Fells

  The house called Sunnyside, located in Nelson's "dress circle", and completed in 1854, was built for Alfred Fell, a prominent, mid-19th century Nelson citizen. The house forms the basis...

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• Marlborough women at war

  New Zealand nurses served in both World Wars, providing devoted care to the war sick and wounded and displaying great courage.   In 1914, Sister Ethel Lewis accompanied 400 patients...

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