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• Nellie Scanlan, author

  Ellen Margaret Scanlan, 1882-1968, New Zealand's most widely read popular novelist of the 1930s and 1940s. She was born in Picton on 15 January 1882, of Irish Catholic...

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• Bessie Te Wenerau Grace, educational leader

  Bessie Te Wenerau Grace, 1889-1944, was the first Māori woman to receive a degree from a university.  Bessie Grace Bessie Grace. Image supplied by author In the first half...

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• Pauline Alice Bennett, pilot

  Pauline (Susie) Alice Bennett was born in 1906 to Ida and Dr. James Freeborn Bennett. She attended St. Mary’s School in Blenheim. bennett Pauline Bennett, pilot. Image supplied by author ...

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• Mary Isoline Watson, wandering washerwoman

  Mary Watson, 1906-1968, married at an early age and settled on a farm at Seddon. Here she became Marlborough's first woman motor cycle rider. mary watson Mary Watson. Image supplied...

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• Jane Watson, dressmaker

  Jane Watson, a dressmaker, first appears in the Marlborough Express advertising for two apprentices in 1876. At this stage she is based on the corner of Auckland and...

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