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Published by

Nelson Historical Society Incorporated

C/- P.O. Box 2069

Stoke, Nelson, N.Z.

Copyright: Portions of the Journal should not be reprinted without the permission of the Committee of the Nelson Historical Society and should be acknowledged to them.

We are grateful to contributors and to the Nelson Provincial Museum, the Marlborough Historical Society and the Waimea South Collection for making photographs available.

Costs and measurements are given in historical articles in the form in use at the time. Approximate equivalents for distance: 1 inch = 2.5 centimetres, 1 foot = 30cm, 1 mile = 1.6 kilometres. At time of conversion one pound equalled two dollars. This has changed with inflation etc.

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