Motueka lime company boosted early farming
The establishment of the Motueka Lime Company Ltd marked a significant step forward for local farmer
The establishment of the Motueka Lime Company Ltd marked a significant step forward for local farmer
The first full year of settlement in Waimea East tested both endurance and unity, as immigrants stru
New Zealand’s School Dental Service was founded in 1921, in response to the poor state of children’s
Motueka’s push to join New Zealand’s growing aviation network gathered pace in 1934, as the communit
A tightly knit Longford community was left shattered in October 1942 when respected residents Regina
Nelson was among New Zealand’s early adopters of radio, but the city’s first stations faced stubborn
Sarah Margaret Fowler, daughter of Edwin and Eliza Fowler of Spring Grove, was born in July 1856, on
As horses gave way to motorbikes and cars in the early 1900s, Richmond businessman John Warring saw
Upper Tākaka’s now-quiet roadside once echoed with coach wheels, thirsty travellers and the buzz of
Many of the early hotels in the Nelson district were built at the junction of key routes, providing
Thomas Mortimore arrived in Collingwood from Devonshire about 1894 and quickly found work doing labo
For decades, organisations across the Upper Motueka Valley lobbied for the Midland railway to be ext
As Christmas 1873 approached, families across Golden Bay were preparing for the festive season when
On a Monday night in October 1891, Foxhill residents gathered in the Foxhill schoolroom to discuss t
Travel over Tākaka Hill began as little more than a bridle track before gradually developing into a
Read part 1 here Plans for a new Nelson asylum took shape in the 1870s after Messrs Beatson and Bel
From the earliest years of settlement, British immigrants carried with them a deep reverence for roy
Plans for a lunatic asylum in Nelson were discussed in the earliest years of the settlement, and in
Christopher Remnant, his wife Anne and their two young children, Ann and William, left England and a
Shortly after the discovery of a natural gas jet in August 1928, the Murchison Oil Company suddenly