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• Enterprise

  The top of the South Island has long been an area of enterprise and ingenuity. These are stories about those enterprises - business, farming, fishing, industry; and the infrastructure which...

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• Marlborough's Flax Industry

  Marlborough had perfect growing conditions and was noted for the excellent quality of its flax.1  Native flax (Harakeke/Phormium tenax) grew in swampy land and on the low foothills and,...

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• Rai Valley

  Māori occupied the Rai and Te Hoiere/Pelorus until 1828, when Te Rauparaha's[te-rauparahas-account/] war parties occupied Te Tau Ihu and local Māori were killed or scattered from their lands. They...

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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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• Marlborough Women and the Petition

  On 19 September 1893, after submitting a petition[https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/womens-suffrage/petition] with nearly 32,000 signatures, New Zealand became the first self-governing country to grant women the vote. In most other democracies – including...

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