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A United Nations indigenous rights expert has made a special visit to the top of the South Island to learn about the Nelson Tenths case and the Crown's breach of its legal obligations to Māori.
Book Review: Working-class militancy disrupted the New Zealand Company’s model settlement.
Book Review: Working-class militancy disrupted the New Zealand Company’s model settlement.
“I’m aware that the story is loaded, and it still inflames passion to this day, on both sides.”
Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, an 1829 book by agriculturist Jethro Tull (later adopted as the name of a British rock band) belonged to early Nelson Institute member, and later New Zealand Premier, Alfred Domett. It was found by Christopher Vine among a treasure trove of books in a Teal Valley cottage. Committee member Christopher Vine, 89, said the institute was born at sea, in the mid-Atlantic off Tenerife in the Canary Islands, in 1841. Captain Arthur Wakefield, one of Nelson's founding fathers, called a meeting on board the sailing ship Whitby to establish an institute “whose objects were th...