(Let him, who has earned it, bear the palm)
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Arthur Wakefield
Captain Arthur Wakefield (19 November 1799 – 17 June 1843) served with the Royal Navy, before joining his brother, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, in founding the new settlement at Nelson, New Zealand.
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Horatio Nelson
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Annesbrook
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Atawhai
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Beachville
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Enner Glynn
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Maitai
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Marybank
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Stepneyville
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Tāhunanui
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Toi Toi
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Wakatu
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Washington Valley
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![Richmond And Nelson From Southeast](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Richmond_And_Nelson_From_Southeast.jpg)
Nelson ( mi, Whakatū) is a city on the eastern shores of
Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere
Tasman Bay (; officially Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere), originally known in English as Blind Bay, is a large V-shaped bay at the north end of New Zealand's South Island. Located in the centre of the island's northern coast, it stretches along ...
. Nelson is the oldest city in the
South Island
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and the second-oldest settled city in New Zealand – it was established in 1841 and became a city by royal charter in 1858.
Nelson City is bordered to the west and south-west by Tasman District Council and to the north-east, east and south-east by Marlborough District Council. The Nelson urban area has a population of , making it New Zealand's 15th most populous urban area.
Nelson is well known for its thriving local arts and crafts scene; each year, the city hosts events popular with locals and tourists alike, such as the Nelson Arts Festival. The annual Wearable Art Awards began near Nelson and a local museum,
World of WearableArt now showcases winning designs alongside a collection of classic cars.
Sister cities
Nelson's
sister cities
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are;
*
Miyazu
270px, Miyazu City Hall
is a city located in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 16,988 in 8348 households and a population density of 98 persons per km². The total area of the city is .
Geography
Miyazu is loca ...
, Japan (1976)
*
Huangshi
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Its population was 2,469,079 inhabitants at the 2020 census; 1,567,108 of whom lived in the built-up (''or ...
, China (1996)
*
Yangjiang
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, China (2014)
Etymology
Nelson was named in honour of the
Admiral Horatio Nelson
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy. His inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy, and unconventional tactics brought abo ...
who defeated both the
French
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and
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fleets at the
Battle of Trafalgar
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in 1805. Many roads and public areas around the city are named after people and ships associated with that battle and Trafalgar Street is the main shopping axis of the city. Inhabitants of Nelson are referred to as Nelsonians.
Nelson's
Māori
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name, Whakatū,
means 'build', 'raise', or 'establish'.
In an article to ''The Colonist'' newspaper on 16 July 1867, Francis Stevens described Nelson as "The
Naples
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of the
Southern Hemisphere". Today, Nelson has the nicknames of "Sunny Nelson" due to its high sunshine hours per year or the "Top of the South" because of its geographic location.
In
New Zealand Sign Language
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, the name is signed by putting the index and middle fingers together which are raised to the nose until the fingertips touch the nose, then move the hand forward so that the fingers point slightly forward away from oneself.
History
Early settlement
Settlement of Nelson began about 700 years ago by Māori. There is evidence the earliest settlements in New Zealand are around the Nelson-Marlborough regions. Some of the earliest recorded
iwi
Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, an ...
in the Nelson district are Ngāti Hāwea, Ngāti Wairangi,
Waitaha and
Kāti Māmoe
Kāti Māmoe (also spelled Ngāti Māmoe but not by the tribe themselves) is a historic Māori iwi. Originally from the Hastings area, they moved in the 16th century to the South Island which at the time was already occupied by the Waitaha.
A ...
.
Waitaha people developed the land around the Waimea Gardens, are believed to have been the first people to quarry
argillite
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in around Nelson. They also developed much of the Waimea Gardens complex – more than 400 hectares on the Waimea Plains near Nelson.
In the early 1600s,
Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri
Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri is a Māori iwi (tribe) of New Zealand, who arrived on the ''Kurahaupō'' waka. In the 1600s the iwi settled northwestern South Island, becoming a major power in the region until the 1800s. In 1642, members of Ngāti Tūmat ...
displaced other
te Tau Ihu Māori
Te Tau Ihu Māori are a group of Māori iwi in the upper South Island of New Zealand. It includes Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne, Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri and Ngāti Apa (from the Kurahaupō canoe), Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Rārua and Ngāti Toa (from the Tainu ...
, becoming the dominant tribe in the area until the early 1800s.
Raids from northern tribes in the 1820s, led by
Te Rauparaha
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and his
Ngāti Toa
Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Toarangatira or Ngāti Toa Rangatira, is a Māori ''iwi'' (tribe) based in the southern North Island and in the northern South Island of New Zealand. Its ''rohe'' (tribal area) extends from Whanganui in the north, Palmerston N ...
, soon decimated the local population and quickly displaced them.
Today there are eight mutually recognised tribes of the northernwestern region:
Ngāti Kuia
Ngāti Kuia is a Māori iwi of the Northern South Island in New Zealand. They first settled in the Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere, and later spread to the Marlborough Sounds, Nelson and Tasman districts to Taitapu on the West Coast, and as far south ...
,
Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō
Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō is a Māori iwi (tribe) in the upper South Island of New Zealand. Its rohe (tribal lands) include the areas around Golden Bay, Tākaka, Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere, Motueka, Nelson and Saint Arnaud, including Taitapu an ...
,
Rangitāne
Rangitāne is a Māori people, Māori iwi (tribe). Their rohe (territory) is in the Manawatū-Whanganui, Manawatū, Horowhenua, Wairarapa and Marlborough Region, Marlborough areas of New Zealand.Ngāti Toa
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rangatira,
Ngāti Koata
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Ngāti Koata whakapapa back to Koata who lived near Kāwhia in the 17th century. She had ...
,
Ngāti Rārua
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Ngāti Rārua stem from the marriage of Rārua-ioio and Tū-pāhau and had their ...
,
Ngāti Tama
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and
Te Atiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui
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Marae ...
.
New Zealand Company
Planning
The
New Zealand Company
The New Zealand Company, chartered in the United Kingdom, was a company that existed in the first half of the 19th century on a business model focused on the systematic colonisation of New Zealand. The company was formed to carry out the principl ...
in London planned the settlement of Nelson. They intended to buy from the
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some of land which they planned to divide into one thousand lots and sell to intending settlers. The company earmarked profits to finance the free passage of artisans and labourers, with their families, and for the construction of public works. However, by September 1841 only about one third of the lots had sold. Despite this the colony pushed ahead, and land was surveyed by
Frederick Tuckett
Frederick Tuckett (1807–1876) was a New Zealand surveyor, explorer and New Zealand Company agent. He was born in Frenchay, Gloucestershire, England in about 1807. He surveyed Nelson and Dunedin
Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second- ...
.
Three ships, the ''
Arrow
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'', ''
Whitby
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'', and ''
Will Watch'', sailed from London under the command of Captain
Arthur Wakefield
Captain Arthur Wakefield (19 November 1799 – 17 June 1843) served with the Royal Navy, before joining his brother, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, in founding the new settlement at Nelson, New Zealand.
Early life
Arthur Wakefield was born in Essex, a ...
. Arriving in New Zealand, they discovered that the new Governor of the colony,
William Hobson
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Hobson was dispatched from London in July 1 ...
, would not give them a free hand to secure vast areas of land from the Māori or indeed to decide where to site the colony. However, after some delay, Hobson allowed the Company to investigate the Tasman Bay area at the north end of the South Island. The Company selected the site now occupied by Nelson City because it had the best harbour in the area. But it had a major drawback: it lacked suitable
arable land
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; Nelson City stands right on the edge of a mountain range while the nearby Waimea Plains amount to only about , less than one third of the area required by the Company plans.
The Company secured land from the Māori, that was not clearly defined, for £800: it included Nelson, Waimea,
Motueka
Motueka is a town in the South Island of New Zealand, close to the mouth of the Motueka River on the western shore of Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere. It is the second largest in the Tasman Region, with a population of as of
The surrounding dis ...
,
Riwaka
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and Whakapuaka. This allowed the settlement to begin, but the lack of definition would prove the source of much future conflict. The three colony ships sailed into Nelson Haven during the first week of November 1841. When the four first immigrant ships – ''
Fifeshire
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'', ''
Mary-Ann'', ''
Lord Auckland
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'' and ''
Lloyds'' – arrived three months later, they found the town already laid out with streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds. Within 18 months the Company had sent out 18 ships with 1052 men, 872 women and 1384 children. However, fewer than ninety of the settlers had the capital to start as landowners.
Cultural and religious immigrants
![Lutheran Church of Upper Moutere, February 2007](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Lutheran_Church_of_Upper_Moutere%2C_February_2007.jpg)
The early settlement of Nelson province included a proportion of German immigrants, who arrived on the ship ''Sankt Pauli'' and formed the nucleus of the villages of Sarau (
Upper Moutere
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History
As early as 1839 the New Zealand Company had resolved to "take steps t ...
) and Neudorf. These were mostly
Lutheran Protestants with a small number of
Bavarian Catholics.
In 1892 the
New Zealand Church Mission Society (NZCMS) was formed in a Nelson church hall.
Problems with land
After a brief initial period of prosperity, the lack of land and of capital caught up with the settlement and it entered a prolonged period of relative depression. The labourers had to accept a cut in their wages. Organised immigration ceased (a state of affairs that continued until the 1850s). By the end of 1843, artisans and labourers began leaving Nelson; by 1846, some 25% of the immigrants had moved away.
The pressure to find more arable land became intense. To the south-east of Nelson lay the wide and fertile plains of the Wairau Valley. The New Zealand Company tried to claim that they had purchased the land. The Māori owners stated adamantly that the Wairau Valley had not formed part of the original land sale and made it clear they would resist any attempts by the settlers to occupy the area. The Nelson settlers led by Arthur Wakefield and Henry Thompson attempted to do just that. This resulted in the
Wairau Affray
The Wairau Affray of 17 June 1843, also called the Wairau Massacre in older histories, was the first serious clash of arms between British settlers and Māori in New Zealand after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and the only one to take ...
, where 22 settlers died. The subsequent Government inquiry exonerated the Māori and found that the Nelson settlers had no legitimate claim to any land outside Tasman Bay. Public fears of a Māori attack on Nelson lead to the formation of the
Nelson Battalion of Militia
The Nelson Battalion of Militia was a short-lived military unit of settlers, formed 12 August 1845 under the terms of the Militia Act of 1845. It was part of the New Zealand Wars.
This made the Nelson Battalion of Militia the first Army unit t ...
in 1845.
City
![NZL-nelson-christ-church-turm](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/NZL-nelson-christ-church-turm.jpg)
Nelson township was managed by the
Nelson Provincial Council
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through a Board of Works constituted by the Provincial Government under the Nelson Improvement Act 1856 until 1874. It was proclaimed a Bishop's
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and city under letters patent by
Queen Victoria
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on 27 September 1858, the second New Zealand city proclaimed in this manner after
Christchurch
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. Nelson only had some 5,000 residents at this time.
Edmund Hobhouse
Edmund Hobhouse (17 April 1817 – 20 April 1904) was the English-born bishop of Nelson, New Zealand, and an antiquary.
Biography
Edmund Hobhouse, born in London on 17 April 1817, was elder brother of Arthur Hobhouse, 1st Baron Hobhouse, and was ...
was the first Bishop. The Municipal Corporations Act 1876 stated that Nelson was constituted a city on 30 March 1874.
Coat of arms
Nelson City has a coat of arms, obtained in 1958 from the
College of Arms
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to mark the Centenary of Nelson as a City. The
blazon
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of the arms is:
:"Barry wavy Argent and Azure a Cross Flory Sable on a Chief also Azure a Mitre proper And for the Crest on a Wreath of the Colours Issuant from a Mural Crown proper a Lion rampant Gules holding between the fore paws a Sun in splendour or. The supporters on the dexter side a Huia Bird and on the sinister side a Kotuku both proper."
Motto "''Palmam qui meruit ferat''" (Let him, who has earned it, bear the palm). This motto is the same as that of
Lord Nelson
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.
Nelson Province
![Nelson in New Zealand (1852)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Nelson_in_New_Zealand_%281852%29.svg)
From 1853 until 1876, when provincial governments were abolished, Nelson was the capital of
Nelson Province
Nelson Province was constituted in 1853 under the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, and originally covered the entire upper South Island, including all of present-day Buller, Kaikoura, Marlborough, and Tasman districts, along with Nelson Ci ...
. The province itself was much larger than present-day Nelson City and included all of the present-day
Buller,
Kaikoura,
Marlborough
Marlborough may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
** Marlborough College, public school
* Marlborough School, Woodstock in Oxfordshire, England
* The Marlborough Science Academy in Hertfordshire, England
Austral ...
, Nelson, and Tasman, as well as the
Grey District
Grey District is a district in the West Coast Region of New Zealand that covers Greymouth, Runanga, Blackball, Cobden, and settlements along the Grey River. It has a land area of . The seat of the Grey District Council, the local government au ...
north of the
Grey River and the
Hurunui District
Hurunui District is a territorial local government district within the Canterbury Region on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, north of Christchurch. It stretches from the east coast to the Main Divide. Its land area is .
Local gover ...
north of the
Hurunui River
The Hurunui River is the fourth largest of the four principal rivers in north Canterbury, New Zealand, with a catchment area of . The river flows from the eastern side of the Southern Alps, to the Pacific Ocean.
Geography
The head of the Hurunu ...
. The
Marlborough Province
:''(For the current top-level subdivision of Nelson in New Zealand, see Marlborough region)''
The Marlborough Province operated as a province of New Zealand from 1 November 1859, when it split away from Nelson Province, until the abolition of pr ...
split from Nelson Province in October 1859.
Nelson provincial anniversary
Nelson Anniversary Day
Public holidays in New Zealand (also known as statutory holidays) consist of a variety of cultural, national, and religious holidays that are legislated in New Zealand. Workers can get a maximum of 12 public holidays (eleven national holidays plu ...
is a public holiday observed in the northern half of the South Island of New Zealand, being the area's provincial anniversary day. It is observed throughout the historic Nelson Province, even though the provinces of New Zealand were abolished in 1876. The modern area of observation includes all of Nelson City and includes all of the present-day Buller, Kaikoura, Marlborough, Tasman districts as well as the Grey District north of the Grey River / Māwheranui and the Hurunui District north of the Hurunui River. The holiday usually falls on the Monday closest to 1 February, the anniversary of the arrival of the first New Zealand Company boat, the ''Fifeshire'' on 1 February 1842.
Anniversary celebrations in the early years featured a sailing regatta, horse racing, running races, shooting and ploughing matches. In 1892, the Nelson Jubilee Celebration featured an official week-long programme with church services, sports, concerts, a ball and a grand display of fireworks.
Time gun
In 1858 the Nelson Provincial Council erected a
time gun at the spot on Brittania Heights where in 1841, Captain Wakefield erected his
flagpole
A flagpole, flagmast, flagstaff, or staff is a pole designed to support a flag. If it is taller than can be easily reached to raise the flag, a cord is used, looping around a pulley at the top of the pole with the ends tied at the bottom. The fla ...
. The gun was fired each Saturday at noon to give the correct time. The gun is now preserved as a historical relic and the
Songer Tree marks the site on Signal Hill of the original flagpole.
Geography
The Nelson-Tasman area comprises two
unitary authorities
A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national governmen ...
– Nelson City, administered by the
Nelson City Council
Nelson City Council is a unitary local authority. It has its headquarters in Nelson.
History
Nelson City Council was created in 1992.
Local governance of Nelson began with Nelson Province in 1853, which covered the entire upper South Island. ...
, and
Tasman District
Tasman District () is a local government district in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand. It borders the Canterbury Region, West Coast Region, Marlborough Region and Nelson City. It is administered by the Tasman District Council, ...
, administered by the
Tasman District Council
Tasman District Council ( mi, Te Kaunihera o te tai o Aorere) is the unitary local authority for the Tasman District of New Zealand.
The council is led by the mayor of Tasman, who is currently .
Tasman elects its 13 councillors from five differ ...
, based in
Richmond
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* Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States
* Richmond, London, a part of London
* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England
* Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada
* Richmond, California, ...
to the southwest. It is between
Marlborough
Marlborough may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
** Marlborough College, public school
* Marlborough School, Woodstock in Oxfordshire, England
* The Marlborough Science Academy in Hertfordshire, England
Austral ...
, another unitary authority, to the east, and the
West Coast Regional Council
The West Coast ( mi, Te Tai Poutini, lit=The Coast of Poutini, the Taniwha) is a region of New Zealand on the west coast of the South Island that is administered by the West Coast Regional Council, and is known co-officially as Te Tai Poutini. ...
to the west.
For some while, there has been talk about amalgamating Nelson City and the Tasman District to streamline and render more financially economical the existing co-operation between the two councils, exemplified by the jointly owned
Port Nelson and the creation of Nelson Tasman Tourism, a jointly owned tourism promotion organisation.
However, an official poll conducted in April 2012 showed nearly three-quarters of those who voted in Richmond were opposed to the proposal with a narrow majority in favour.
Nelson has beaches and a sheltered harbour. The harbour entrance is protected by a
Boulder Bank
The Boulder Bank (Māori: ''Te Taero a Keropa'' or ''Te Tāhuna o Tama-i-ea'') is a very unusual naturally formed landform in Nelson, New Zealand. It is a 13 kilometre long stretch of rocky substrate which begins at the Mackay Bluff and ends a ...
, a natural, bank of rocks transported south from Mackay Bluff via
longshore drift
Longshore drift from longshore current is a geological process that consists of the transportation of sediments (clay, silt, pebbles, sand, shingle) along a coast parallel to the shoreline, which is dependent on the angle incoming wave direction ...
. The bank creates a perfect natural harbour which enticed the first settlers although the entrance was narrow. The wreck of the ''Fifeshire'' on
Arrow Rock (now called Fifeshire Rock in memory of this disaster) in 1842 proved the difficulty of the passage. A cut was later made in the bank in 1906 which allowed larger vessels access to the port.
The creation of Rocks Road around the waterfront area after the
Tāhunanui
Tāhunanui is one of the suburbs of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies between Port Nelson and Nelson Airport and is the site of the main beach for Nelson with a shoreline on the Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere.
The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and ...
slump in 1892 increased the effects of the tide on Nelson city's beach, Tāhunanui, and removed sediment. This meant the popular beach and adjoining car park were being eroded (plus the
sand dunes
A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, fl ...
) so a project to replace these sands was put in place and has so far proved a success, with the sand rising a considerable amount and the dunes continuing to grow.
Waterways
The Nelson territorial authority area is small (just 445 km
2) and has four main waterways, the Whangamoa, Wakapuaka, Maitai and Roding Rivers. The Roding River, the southernmost in Nelson, arises in the hills between Mount Meares and Dun Mountain. From there it flows westward before entering the Tasman District where it eventually joins the Waimea River which flows into Waimea Inlet near Rabbit Island. The
Maitai River
The Maitai River (also known as the Mahitahi River) is the largest river in the city of Nelson, in the north of New Zealand's South Island. The river stretches from the Bryant Range, situated to the east (inland) of Nelson, where it flows toward ...
flows westward from the Dun Mountain area into the town centre of Nelson before entering the Nelson Haven then Tasman Bay via 'The Cut'. Major tributaries of the Maitai River are:
York
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and
Brook
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*Brook+, an explicit data-parallel C compiler
*BrookGPU, a framework for GPGPU programming ...
Streams plus
Sharland, Packer,
Groom
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, Glen, Neds, Sclanders, Beauchamp and Mill Creeks. The Wakapuaka River, which flows north from the Saddle Hill area to its mouth at Cable Bay in North Nelson, has two main tributaries, the Lud and Teal Rivers. Entering Tasman Bay near Kokorua in the north of Nelson, the Whangamoa River is the longest waterway in Nelson.
Smaller waterways in the south of Nelson include: Saxton Creek, Orchard Stream, Poorman Valley Stream, Arapiki Stream, Jenkins Creek and Maire Stream.
Central city
![Millers Acre Complex in Nelson](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Millers_Acre_Complex_in_Nelson.jpg)
The central city of Nelson, also referred to as the central business district (CBD), is bounded by Halifax Street to the north, Rutherford Street to the west, Collingwood Street to the east, and Selwyn Place to the south. Other major streets within the CBD include Trafalgar Street, Bridge Street and Hardy Street.
Suburbs
Suburbs within Nelson City's territorial area borders are grouped into four city districts:
Nelson North:
*
Glenduan
Glenduan is a small township lying to the north of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies on the shore of Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere between the northern end of Boulder Bank
The Boulder Bank (Māori: ''Te Taero a Keropa'' or ''Te Tāhuna o Tama-i-ea' ...
*
Wakapuaka
Wakapuaka is a small township lying to the north of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies on inland from the northern end of Nelson Haven, between Marybank and Hira Hira may refer to:
Places
*Cave of Hira, a cave associated with Muhammad
* Al-Hirah, a ...
*
Todds Valley
Todds Valley is a small township to the north of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies to the southeast of , immediately to the north of Marybank, New Zealand at the northern tip of Nelson Haven
Nelson Haven is an extensive area of mudflats northeast o ...
*
Marybank
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Contin (Gaelic: Cunndainn) i ...
*
Atawhai
Atawhai is a suburb of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies north of Nelson and is the location of Wakapuaka Cemetery, a burial place since 1861. It also has a coastline on Nelson Haven and access to Boulder Bank from .
Geography
Atawhai covers an area ...
*
Dodson Valley
Dodson Valley is a sub-suburb in Nelson, New Zealand, located by heading north into Atawhai. It borders between the coast Nelson Haven
Nelson Haven is an extensive area of mudflats northeast of Nelson, New Zealand. It is separated from Tasman Bay ...
*
Brooklands
Brooklands was a motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England, United Kingdom. It opened in 1907 and was the world's first purpose-built 'banked' motor racing circuit as well as one of Britain's first airfields, ...
City Centre:
*
Nelson Central
Nelson Central is the central suburb and central business district of Nelson, New Zealand.
Amenities
The suburb includes the Christ Church Cathedral and the surrounding Church Hill reserve.
Nelson Provincial Museum, the regional museum, is lo ...
*
Port Nelson
*
Beachville
*
The Wood
''The Wood'' is a 1999 American coming-of-age comedy drama film directed by Rick Famuyiwa and starring Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones and Taye Diggs. It was written by Famuyiwa and Todd Boyd.
Plot
Roland is getting married and is currently missing. ...
*
Hanby Park
Maitai is an inner suburb of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies at the western edge of Nelson city centre, immediately to the south of The Wood, on the northern bank of the Maitai River. A monument representing the location of the geographic centre of ...
*
Maitai
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History
Victor J. Bergeron claimed to have invented the Mai Tai in 1944 at his restaurant, Trader ...
*
Nelson East
Nelson East is an inner suburb of Nelson, New Zealand. As its name suggests, it lies to the east of Nelson city centre, along the banks of the Maitai River between the city centre and Maitai. Notable features of Nelson East include Queen's Garden ...
*
Nelson South
Nelson South is an inner suburb of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies to the southwest of Nelson city centre, between it and Bishopdale, close to the foot of The Grampians. The main inland route to Stoke, New Zealand, Waimea Road, is Nelson South' ...
*
Toi Toi
Toi Toi is an inner suburb of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies to the southwest of Nelson city centre, inland from Britannia Heights and Washington Valley. Toi Toi is also known as Victory Village.
The population was 1665 in the 2013 census. This ...
(Victory Village)
*
Bishopdale
*
The Brook
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It was founded in 1903 by a group of prominent men who belonged to other New York City private clubs, such as the Knickerbocker Club and the Union Club.
*
Washington Valley
*
Stepneyville
Stepneyville is a suburb of Nelson, New Zealand.
It lies on to the west of Nelson city centre, on the shore of Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere, between Port Nelson and Britannia Heights.Wise's Nelson-Blenheim "Easyread" Map
Geography
The corre ...
*
Britannia Heights
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Tāhunanui-Port Hills:
*
Tāhunanui
Tāhunanui is one of the suburbs of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies between Port Nelson and Nelson Airport and is the site of the main beach for Nelson with a shoreline on the Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere.
The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and ...
*
Enner Glynn
Enner Glynn is a suburb of Nelson, New Zealand, Nelson, New Zealand. It lies to the south of Nelson city centre and east of Stoke, New Zealand, Stoke, inland from Wakatu.Wise's Nelson-Blenheim "Easyread" Map
Geography
Enner Glynn covers an area ...
*
Moana
*
Tasman Heights
Tasman Heights is one of the suburbs of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies to the southeast of Nelson city centre, between Wakatu and Moana, Nelson, Moana.Wise's Nelson-Blenheim "Easyread" Map
References
Suburbs of Nelson, New Zealand
Popula ...
*
Annesbrook
Annesbrook is an industrial suburb of Nelson, New Zealand.
It lies between and Nelson Airport to the southwest of Nelson city centre and north of Stoke.
The Nelson Classic Car Museum (which was previously the World of WearableArt & Classic Ca ...
*
Wakatu
Wakatu (also spelt Whakatu, as in the Māori name for the Nelson area) is an industrial suburb of Nelson in New Zealand.
It lies on to the southwest of Nelson city centre and northeast of Stoke
Stoke is a common place name in the United King ...
Stoke:
*
Stoke
Stoke is a common place name in the United Kingdom.
Stoke may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
The largest city called Stoke is Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire. See below.
Berkshire
* Stoke Row, Berkshire
Bristol
* Stoke Bishop
* Stok ...
*
Greenmeadows Park
Greenmeadows Park is a park and suburb of Stoke, New Zealand. It lies close to the centre of Stoke, southwest of Nelson
Nelson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey
* ''Nelso ...
*
Nayland
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*
Monaco
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*
Maitlands
Maitlands is one of the suburbs of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies to the east of Stoke, immediately to the west of Enner Glynn.Wise's Nelson-Blenheim "Easyread" Map
Geography
Maitlands covers an area of 0.77 km².
History
The estimated popul ...
*
Saxton
The Nelson commuter belt extends to
Richmond
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* Richmond, London, a part of London
* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England
* Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada
* Richmond, California, ...
,
Brightwater
Brightwater (Māori language, Māori: ''Wairoa'') is a town southwest of Nelson, New Zealand, Nelson in Tasman Region, Tasman district in the South Island of New Zealand. It stands on the banks of the Wairoa River, Tasman, Wairoa River. Bright ...
,
Hope
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As a verb, its definitions include: "expect with confidence" and "to cherish ...
,
Māpua and
Wakefield
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in the Tasman District.
National parks
Nelson is surrounded by mountains on three sides with Tasman Bay on the other and the region is the gateway to
Abel Tasman National Park
Abel Tasman National Park is a New Zealand national park located between Golden Bay and Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere at the north end of the South Island. It is named after Abel Tasman, who in 1642 became the first European explorer to sight New ...
,
Kahurangi National Park
Kahurangi National Park in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand is the second largest of the thirteen national parks of New Zealand. It was gazetted in 1996 and covers , ranging to near Golden Bay in the north. Much of what was the ...
, Lakes
Rotoiti Rotoiti may be: Places
*Lake Rotoiti (Bay of Plenty), a lake in the Bay of Plenty area of New Zealand
:*Rotoiti, Bay of Plenty, a locality on the shore of Lake Rotoiti
*Lake Rotoiti (Tasman), a lake in the Tasman area of New Zealand
* Mount Rotoiti, ...
and
Rotoroa in the
Nelson Lakes National Park
Nelson Lakes National Park is in the South Island of New Zealand, at the northern end of the Southern Alps. It was formed after the passing of the National Parks Act in 1952. It was created in 1956 (one of four created in the 1950s). The park co ...
.
It is a centre for both
ecotourism
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and
adventure tourism
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and has a high reputation among
caving
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enthusiasts due to several prominent cave systems around
Takaka Hill and Mounts
Owen
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Its meanings range from noble, youthful, and well-born.
Gender: Owen is historically the masculine form of the name. Popular feminine variations include Eowyn and Owena. ...
and
Arthur
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, which hold the largest and deepest explored caverns in the southern hemisphere.
Climate
Nelson has a temperate
oceanic climate
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(
Cfb), with mild winters and warm summers. Nelson has rainfall evenly distributed throughout the year and has fewer frosts due to the highly marine geography of New Zealand. Winter is the stormiest time, when gales and storms are more common. Nelson has one of the sunniest climates of all major New Zealand centres,
earning the nickname 'Sunny Nelson' with an annual average total of over 2400 hours of sunshine. The highest recorded temperature in Nelson is , the lowest .
"Centre of New Zealand" monument
![Geographical centre nelson](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Geographical_centre_nelson.jpg)
Nelson has a monument on Botanical Hill, near the centre of the city. The walk to this is called the "''Centre of New Zealand walk''". Despite the name, this monument does not mark the actual geographic centre of New Zealand.
Instead, the monument marks the "zero, zero" point to which the first geodetic surveys of New Zealand were referenced. These surveys were started in the 1870s by John Spence Browning, the Chief Surveyor for Nelson. From this 360-degree viewpoint, survey marks in neighbouring regions (including Wellington in the North Island) could be
triangulated
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Applications
In surveying
Specifically in surveying, triangulation involves only angle me ...
and the local surveys connected.
In 1962, Dr Ian Reilly from the now defunct
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, abbreviated DSIR was the name of several British Empire organisations founded after the 1923 Imperial Conference to foster intra-Empire trade and development.
* Department of Scientific and Industria ...
calculated the geographic centre of New Zealand (including Stewart Island and some smaller islands in addition to the North and South Island, but excluding the
Chathams) to be in a forest in
Spooners Range southwest of Nelson at .
Owing to the coarse nature of the underlying data (use of rectangular areas of 7.5 minutes of arc on each side), the centre calculated by Dr Reilly has quite large error margins. Recalculating the result with more modern and accurate data shows the geographic centre of New Zealand is approximately 60 km southwest of Nelson, in the Big Bush Conservation Area north of
Saint Arnaud, New Zealand
Saint Arnaud (previously Rotoiti) is a small alpine village in the Tasman District, Tasman district of New Zealand's South Island, west of the mountains of the Saint Arnaud Range and 90 kilometres southwest of Nelson, New Zealand, Nelson near th ...
.
Demographics
Nelson Region covers
and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km
2.
![TasmanNelsonRegionPopulationDensity](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/TasmanNelsonRegionPopulationDensity.png)
Nelson Region had a population of 50,880 at the
2018 New Zealand census
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, an increase of 4,443 people (9.6%) since the
2013 census, and an increase of 7,992 people (18.6%) since the
2006 census
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. There were 19,821 households. There were 24,804 males and 26,076 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.95 males per female. The median age was 43.4 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 9,027 people (17.7%) aged under 15 years, 8,469 (16.6%) aged 15 to 29, 23,541 (46.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 9,843 (19.3%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 86.7% European/Pākehā, 10.7% Māori, 2.3% Pacific peoples, 7.1% Asian, and 2.3% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.
The percentage of people born overseas was 23.6, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people objected to giving their religion, 56.2% had no religion, 31.8% were Christian, 0.9% were Hindu, 0.2% were Muslim, 1.2% were Buddhist and 2.6% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 9,150 (21.9%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 7,674 (18.3%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $29,600, compared with $31,800 nationally. 5,634 people (13.5%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 19,311 (46.1%) people were employed full-time, 7,119 (17.0%) were part-time, and 1,278 (3.1%) were unemployed.
Economy
The Nelson economy (and that of the neighbouring
Tasman District
Tasman District () is a local government district in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand. It borders the Canterbury Region, West Coast Region, Marlborough Region and Nelson City. It is administered by the Tasman District Council, ...
) is based on the 'big five' industries; seafood, horticulture, forestry, farming and tourism. Port Nelson is the biggest fishing port in
Australasia
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. There are also a range of growth industries, including art and craft, aviation,
engineering technology
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, and information technology. The region is sixth in terms of GDP growth in the 2007–10 period.
The combined sub-national GDP of Nelson and Tasman District was estimated at $3.4 billion in 2010, 1.8% of New Zealand's national GDP.
Nelson is home to various business agencies that serve the city and its surrounds, including Nelson Tasman Tourism (NTT), which aims to promote the region and help advertisers reach visitors from New Zealand and overseas, and the Nelson Regional Economic Development Agency (EDA), which works to "coordinate, promote, facilitate, investigate, develop, implement, support and fund initiatives relating to economic development
ndemployment growth ... within the Nelson region ..."
Below is a list of some of the region's largest companies and employers:
* Regional airline
Air Nelson
Air Nelson was a regional airline based in Nelson, New Zealand. It was founded as an independent airline in 1979. Air New Zealand took a 50% shareholding in 1988 and 100% ownership in 1995. Air Nelson operated services on provincial routes under ...
has its headquarters and maintenance base at
Nelson Airport.
*
Helicopters (NZ)
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has its headquarters and maintenance base at
Nelson Airport.
* Japanese automobile manufacturer
Honda
is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a product ...
has its New Zealand
distribution centre
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in the Whakatu Industrial Estate in
Stoke
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Stoke may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
The largest city called Stoke is Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire. See below.
Berkshire
* Stoke Row, Berkshire
Bristol
* Stoke Bishop
* Stok ...
.
* Beverage company
McCashins has a
microbrewery
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in
Stoke
Stoke is a common place name in the United Kingdom.
Stoke may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
The largest city called Stoke is Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire. See below.
Berkshire
* Stoke Row, Berkshire
Bristol
* Stoke Bishop
* Stok ...
* Sea Dragon Marine Oils has a fish oil refinery in Annesbrook.
* The
Cawthron Institute
The Cawthron Institute is New Zealand's largest independent science organisation, specialising in science that supports the environment and development within primary industries. Cawthron has its main facilities in Nelson. It works with regional ...
has a research facility in
The Wood
''The Wood'' is a 1999 American coming-of-age comedy drama film directed by Rick Famuyiwa and starring Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones and Taye Diggs. It was written by Famuyiwa and Todd Boyd.
Plot
Roland is getting married and is currently missing. ...
.
* Food manufacturer, the
Talley's Group
Talley's Group Limited is a privately owned, New Zealand-based agribusiness company that provides seafood, vegetable and dairy products. Talley's was established in 1936 in Motueka by Ivan Peter Talijancich (later known as Ivan Talley) as a m ...
has processing facilities at
Port Nelson.
* The New Zealand King Salmon Company processes
Chinook salmon
The Chinook salmon (''Oncorhynchus tshawytscha'') is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon in North America, as well as the largest in the genus ''Oncorhynchus''. Its common name is derived from the Chinookan peoples. Other ve ...
at its factory in
Annesbrook
Annesbrook is an industrial suburb of Nelson, New Zealand.
It lies between and Nelson Airport to the southwest of Nelson city centre and north of Stoke.
The Nelson Classic Car Museum (which was previously the World of WearableArt & Classic Ca ...
.
* Pic's Peanut Butter is made in its
Stoke, New Zealand
Stoke ( mi, Omaio) is a suburb of Nelson in New Zealand, located between Richmond and Tāhunanui. Stoke was named by William Songer, the personal servant of Arthur Wakefield, after his birthplace Stoke-by-Nayland in Suffolk.
In 2010 it was vote ...
factory.
In 2013, Nelson Mayor
Aldo Miccio
Cataldo (Aldo) Miccio (born 1971) is a New Zealand former local-body politician. He was the Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand, Mayor of Nelson for one term from 2010 to 2013.
Background
Miccio is married to Kimberley, a former Sydney hotel reserv ...
worked on a proposal that would see Australian
call centres
A call centre ( Commonwealth spelling) or call center (American spelling; see spelling differences) is a managed capability that can be centralised or remote that is used for receiving or transmitting a large volume of enquiries by telephone. ...
for companies such as
Gen-i
Spark New Zealand Limited is a New Zealand telecommunications company providing fixed-line plain old telephone service, telephone services, a mobile phone network, internet service provider, internet access services, and (through its Spark Digi ...
and
Xero relocated to Nelson. The plan was in response to Australian companies moving call and contact centres out of Asia because their Australian customers preferred English-speaking centres. If the plan was successful, Mr Miccio expected 100 to 300 jobs paying NZ$50,000-plus in the first year to be created in Nelson.
Government
Local
![Nelson City Council Building](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Nelson_City_Council_Building.JPG)
As a
unitary authority
A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national governmen ...
, the
Nelson City Council
Nelson City Council is a unitary local authority. It has its headquarters in Nelson.
History
Nelson City Council was created in 1992.
Local governance of Nelson began with Nelson Province in 1853, which covered the entire upper South Island. ...
has the combined responsibilities and functions of both a
territorial (local) and
regional council. This is different from most other local authorities in New Zealand. More often a regional council is a separate organisation with several territorial authorities (city or district councils) within its borders. Other unitary authorities are the
Auckland Council
Auckland Council ( mi, Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau) is the local government council for the Auckland Region in New Zealand. It is a territorial authority that has the responsibilities, duties and powers of a regional council and so is ...
,
Gisborne District Council
Gisborne District Council ( mi, Te Kaunihera o Te Tairāwhiti) is the unitary authority for the Gisborne District of New Zealand. The council consists of a mayor and 13 ward councillors. The district consists of the city of Gisborne and a largel ...
,
Marlborough District Council
Marlborough District Council ( mi, Te Tauihu-o-te-waka) is the unitary local authority for the Marlborough District of New Zealand.
The council is led by the mayor of Marlborough, who is currently . There are also 13 councillors representing th ...
,
Tasman District Council
Tasman District Council ( mi, Te Kaunihera o te tai o Aorere) is the unitary local authority for the Tasman District of New Zealand.
The council is led by the mayor of Tasman, who is currently .
Tasman elects its 13 councillors from five differ ...
and the
Chatham Islands Council
The Chatham Islands ( ) (Moriori: ''Rēkohu'', 'Misty Sun'; mi, Wharekauri) are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about east of New Zealand's South Island. They are administered as part of New Zealand. The archipelago consists of about te ...
.
The Nelson City Council currently holds its elections under the
First Past the Post
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...
electoral system once every three years, with the
most recent election held on 12 October 2019. Electors vote by indicating their choice for Mayor by placing a tick beside one of the names and the person who receives the most votes becomes Mayor.
Councillors
A councillor is an elected representative for a local government council in some countries.
Canada
Due to the control that the provinces have over their municipal governments, terms that councillors serve vary from province to province. Unl ...
are elected the same way but voters could cast multiple votes, with the 12 candidates who each receive the most votes becoming Councillors. Voters in this system may vote for no more than 12 candidates. The elections are conducted by post over a three-week period to make it as convenient as possible for people to vote.
The other option permitted under the Local Electoral Act 2001, but not currently used in Nelson, is the
Single Transferable Vote
Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate p ...
system. Multiple-member districts are used. Electors vote by ranking candidates in order of preference by placing a number beside candidates' names. The elector can mark a preference for one or up to the total number of candidates on the paper. The number of votes required for a candidate to be elected, the quota, depends on the number of positions to be filled and the number of valid votes. (Election of mayor may be held using the
Instant-runoff vote
Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is a type of Ranked voting, ranked preferential Electoral system, voting method. It uses a Majority rule, majority voting rule in single-winner elections where there are more than two candidates. It is commonly referr ...
method.)
Under the
Local Electoral Act 2002, the Nelson City Council can resolve to change the electoral system to be used for the next two elections, and it must review this decision every six years. A referendum was held in 2003 to decide which electoral system would be used for the 2004 and 2007 Nelson City Council elections. The outcome was that the First Past the Post system was retained. The 2008 review retains that system for the 2010 and 2013 elections.
On 12 October 2013,
Rachel Reese
Rachel Hadley Reese (born ) is a New Zealand local-body politician. She was the mayor of Nelson from 2013 to 2022. She was Nelson's first female mayor.
Early life and education
Reese was born in Mosgiel and grew up in Dunedin. She attended St ...
was elected as Nelson's first woman mayor after receiving 1,500 votes more than incumbent mayor
Aldo Miccio
Cataldo (Aldo) Miccio (born 1971) is a New Zealand former local-body politician. He was the Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand, Mayor of Nelson for one term from 2010 to 2013.
Background
Miccio is married to Kimberley, a former Sydney hotel reserv ...
.
As of 13 October 2022, the current council members for the 2022 to 2025 term are:-
National
Nelson is covered by one general electorate:
Nelson
Nelson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey
* ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers
* ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...
and one Maori electorate:
Te Tai Tonga
Te Tai Tonga is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorates, Māori electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand New Zealand House of Representatives, House of Representatives. It was established for the 1996 New Zealand ...
.
As of the
2020 general election
The following elections were scheduled to occur in 2020. The International Foundation for Electoral Systems maintains a comprehensive list of upcoming elections on its E-Guide Platform. The National Democratic Institute also maintains a calend ...
, Nelson is held by
Rachel Boyack
Rachel Elizabeth Boyack is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party.
Early life and career
For three years, Boyack was the student union president for Saniti, the student union for ...
of the
Labour Party. The Maori electorate Te Tai Tonga, which covers the entire South Island and part of
Wellington
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by me ...
in the North Island, is currently held by
Labour
Labour or labor may refer to:
* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
and represented by
Rino Tirikatene
Rino Tirikatene (born 1972) is a New Zealand politician and a member of the House of Representatives, representing the Te Tai Tonga electorate since the . He is a member of the Labour Party. He comes from a family with a strong political histor ...
.
Culture and the arts
![Suter Art Gallery, Nelson 100](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Suter_Art_Gallery%2C_Nelson_100.JPG)
As the major regional centre, the city offers many lodgings, restaurants, and unique speciality shopping such as at the
Jens Hansen Goldsmith
A goldsmith is a Metalworking, metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Nowadays they mainly specialize in jewelry-making but historically, goldsmiths have also made cutlery, silverware, platter (dishware), pl ...
s where "
The One Ring" in
''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy was designed.
* Nelson has a vibrant local music and arts scene and is known nationwide for its culturally idiosyncratic craftsmen. These include
potters
A potter is someone who makes pottery.
Potter may also refer to:
Places United States
*Potter, originally a section on the Alaska Railroad, currently a neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska, US
* Potter, Arkansas
*Potter, Nebraska
* Potters, New Jer ...
,
glass blowers (such as Flamedaisy Glass Design and Höglund Art Glass Studio & Gallery), and dozens of
wood carvers
Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation ...
using native New Zealand
southern beech
''Nothofagus'', also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 43 species of trees and shrubs native to the Southern Hemisphere in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and Australasia (east and southeast Australia, New Zealand, New Gui ...
and exotic
macrocarpa
''Hesperocyparis macrocarpa'' is a coniferous tree. It is commonly known as the Monterey cypress and is one of several species of cypress trees endemic to California.
The Monterey cypress is found naturally only on the Central Coast of Califo ...
.
* Nelson is a popular visitor destination and year-round attracts both New Zealanders and international tourists.
* The
Nelson Saturday Market
Nelson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey
* ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers
* ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...
is a popular weekly market where one can buy direct from local artists.
* The Theatre Royal was restored in 2010 and is the oldest wooden functioning theatre in the Southern Hemisphere (built 1878)
* Art organisations include the
Suter Art Gallery
Suter is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
* Alexis P. Suter (born 1963), American blues, and soul blues singer and songwriter
* Andrew Burn Suter (1830–1895), Bishop of the Diocese of Nelson, New Zealand
* August Suter (1887& ...
and
Nelson Arts Festival.
* The
Victory Village
The term victory (from Latin ''victoria'') originally applied to warfare, and denotes success achieved in personal Duel, combat, after military operations in general or, by extension, in any competition. Success in a military campaign constitu ...
community received the 2010
New Zealander of the Year
The New Zealander of the Year Awards, currently known as the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Awards, celebrate the achievements of New Zealanders, and were founded in 2010 by Australian Jeffrey John Hopp. Nominations are accepted from the gene ...
award for
Community of the Year
A community is a Level of analysis, social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place (geography), place, Norm (social), norms, religion, values, Convention (norm), customs, or Identity (social science), identity. Communiti ...
.
The first
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
match in New Zealand took place at the Botanic Reserve in Nelson on 14 May 1870, between the
Nelson Suburbs FC
Nelson Suburbs FC is a football club in Nelson, New Zealand. They compete in the Mainland Premier League.
They have won the Mainland Premier League three times. Nelson Suburbs FC has strong ties with the region's most successful football schoo ...
and
Nelson College
Nelson College is the oldest state secondary school in New Zealand. It is an all-boys school in the City of Nelson that teaches from years 9 to 13. In addition, it runs a private preparatory school for year 7 and 8 boys. The school also has ...
, and an informative commemorative plaque was renovated at the western edge of the grassed area by Nelson City Council in 2006.
Marae
Whakatū Marae, in the suburb of
Atawhai
Atawhai is a suburb of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies north of Nelson and is the location of Wakapuaka Cemetery, a burial place since 1861. It also has a coastline on Nelson Haven and access to Boulder Bank from .
Geography
Atawhai covers an area ...
, is the ''
marae
A ' (in New Zealand Māori, Cook Islands Māori, Tahitian), ' (in Tongan), ' (in Marquesan) or ' (in Samoan) is a communal or sacred place that serves religious and social purposes in Polynesian societies. In all these languages, the term a ...
'' (meeting ground) of
Ngāti Kuia
Ngāti Kuia is a Māori iwi of the Northern South Island in New Zealand. They first settled in the Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere, and later spread to the Marlborough Sounds, Nelson and Tasman districts to Taitapu on the West Coast, and as far south ...
,
Ngāti Kōata
Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, an ...
,
Ngāti Rārua
Ngāti Rārua are a Māori iwi (tribe) of the Tainui tribal confederation, descendants of the people who arrived in Aotearoa aboard the ''Tainui'' waka (canoe).
Ngāti Rārua stem from the marriage of Rārua-ioio and Tū-pāhau and had their ...
,
Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu
Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, an ...
,
Ngāti Toa Rangatira
Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, an ...
and
Te Atiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui
Te Atiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui is a Māori iwi (tribe) in the upper South Island of New Zealand. Its rohe (tribal area) extends from Golden Bay and Marlborough Sounds at the top of the South Island to Cape Campbell, St Arnaud and Westport.
Marae ...
. It includes the Kākāti ''
wharenui
A wharenui (; literally "large house") is a communal house of the Māori people of New Zealand, generally situated as the focal point of a ''marae''. Wharenui are usually called meeting houses in New Zealand English, or simply called ''whare'' ( ...
'' (meeting house).
In October 2020, the Government committed $240,739 from the
Provincial Growth Fund
Shane Geoffrey Jones (born 3 September 1959) is a New Zealand politician. He served as a New Zealand First list MP from 2017 to 2020 and was previously a Labour list MP from 2005 to 2014.
Jones was a cabinet minister in the Fifth Labour Gove ...
to restore the marae, creating an estimated 9 jobs.
Events and festivals
Several major events take place:
* Nelson Jazz & Blues Festival – January
* Nelson Kite Festival – January
* Nelson Yacht Regatta – January
* Adam Chamber Music Festival – biennial – January / February
* Evolve Festival – February
* Marchfest – March
* Taste Nelson festival – March
* Winter Music Festival – July
* Nelson Arts Festival – October
Architecture
![Rutherford Hotel](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Rutherford_Hotel.jpg)
The tallest building in Nelson is the tall
Rutherford Hotel
The Rutherford Hotel (named after Sir Ernest Rutherford) is a luxury accommodation hotel in Nelson, New Zealand It is the biggest hotel in Nelson, and the city's tallest building. It is part of the chain company Heritage Hotels, which have hotels ...
located on the west edge of Trafalgar Square. Unlike many towns and cities in New Zealand, Nelson has retained many
Victorian
Victorian or Victorians may refer to:
19th century
* Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign
** Victorian architecture
** Victorian house
** Victorian decorative arts
** Victorian fashion
** Victorian literature ...
buildings in its historic centre and the South Street area has been designated as having heritage value.
Surviving historic buildings
![Amber House, Nelson, New Zealand, 2005-11-16T01-33Z](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Amber_House%2C_Nelson%2C_New_Zealand%2C_2005-11-16T01-33Z.jpg)
*
Nelson Cathedral
Christ Church Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in upper Trafalgar Street, Nelson, New Zealand with seating for 350 people. It is 58 metres in length and 27 metres wide. The tower is 35 metres high.
History
The original church was erected in ...
*
Amber House
Amber House is one of the older two-storey villas in New Zealand's third founded city of Nelson in the top of the South Island at 46 Weka Street.
It is a traditional colonial-style construction using native Rimu and Matai timbers with an extern ...
* Broadgreen House
*
Cabragh House
Cabragh House (school and residence) is a late Victorian, timber house at 48 Weka Street in Nelson, New Zealand built circa 1897. It is an historic site for exemplarising late Victorian furnishings and provincial New Zealand vernacular architect ...
*
Chez Eelco
*
Fairfield House
* Founders Park Windmill
* Isel House
* Melrose House
*
Nelson Central School
, type = Contributing Primary
, established = 1878; years ago
, address = 70 Nile Street, Nelson
, coordinates =
, principal = Pip Wells
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, decile = 7
, MOE = 3209
, homepage nelsoncentra ...
Renwick House
*
Theatre Royal
*
Victorian Rose Pub
* Redwood College (Founders Park)
* Nelson Centre of Musical Arts (formerly Nelson School of Music) Est. 1894
Museums
The Nelson region houses several museums.
* The
Founders Heritage Park
Founders Heritage Park is a museum in Nelson, New Zealand, housing a number of groups with historical themes, including transport. A short heritage railway line is operated by the Nelson Railway Society. Several shops operate in the museum, selli ...
houses a number of groups with historical themes, including transport.
* The
Nelson Provincial Museum
The Nelson Provincial Museum, ''Pupuri Taonga O Te Tai Ao'' is a regional museum in the city of Nelson, New Zealand. The museum showcases the Nelson and Tasman regions' history, from geological origins to the stories of individuals and families.
N ...
houses a collection of locally significant artefacts.
* The
World of WearableArt houses a collection of collectable cars and a collections of works from the
Wearable Art Awards Wearable may refer to:
* Clothing
* Wearable technology
** Wearable computer
*** Activity tracker
{{Disambiguation ...
.
Parks and zoo
![Founders Heritage Park main street](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Founders_Heritage_Park_main_street.jpg)
Nelson has a large number and variety of
public parks
A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are green spaces set aside for recreation inside towns and cities. N ...
and reserves maintained at public expense by Nelson City Council. Major reserves include Grampians Reserve, close to the suburb of
Braemar
Braemar is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, around west of Aberdeen in the Highlands. It is the closest significantly-sized settlement to the upper course of the River Dee sitting at an elevation of .
The Gaelic ''Bràigh Mhàrr'' prop ...
, and the botanical Reserve in the east of Nelson, close to
The Wood
''The Wood'' is a 1999 American coming-of-age comedy drama film directed by Rick Famuyiwa and starring Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones and Taye Diggs. It was written by Famuyiwa and Todd Boyd.
Plot
Roland is getting married and is currently missing. ...
.
Natureland Zoological Park is a small zoological facility close to Tāhunanui Beach. The facility is popular with children, where they can closely approach
wallabies
A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and so ...
, monkeys, meerkats, llamas and alpacas,
Kune Kune
The Kunekune or is a small breed of domestic pig from New Zealand. Kunekune are hairy with a rotund build, and may bear wattles hanging from their lower jaws. Their colour ranges from black and white, to ginger, cream, gold-tip, black, brown, ...
pigs, otters, and peacocks. There are also turtles, tropical fish and a walk through aviary. Although the zoo nearly closed in 2008, the Orana Wildlife Trust took over its running instead. It looked like a bright future ahead for Natureland and its staff but since the repeated earthquakes in
Christchurch in 2011 and the damage to Orana Park, Orana Wildlife Trust are uncertain of the future of Natureland.
Orana Wildlife trust have since pulled out of Natureland, which is now run independently.
Sport
Major sports teams
Major venues
Infrastructure and services
Healthcare
The main hospital in Nelson is the Nelson Hospital. It is the seat of the
Nelson Marlborough District Health Board
The Nelson Marlborough District Health Board (Nelson Marlborough DHB or NMDHB) was a district health board with the focus on providing healthcare to the Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough districts of New Zealand. In July 2022, it was merged into ...
.
The Manuka Street Hospital is a private institution.
Law enforcement
The
Nelson Central Police Station, located in St John Street, is the headquarters for the Tasman Police District. The Tasman Police District has the lowest crime rate within New Zealand.
Gangs
Several gangs have established themselves in Nelson. They include the now disbanded
Lost Breed
The Lost Breed Motorcycle Club was an outlaw motorcycle club in Nelson, New Zealand, formed in 1976.
From that time on and up until their dissolution, they were essentially the only gang in the town and repelled attempts by other gangs (including ...
and the Red Devils a support club for the
Hells Angels
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is a worldwide outlaw motorcycle club whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporatio ...
. The
Rebels Motorcycle Club
The Rebels Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club. At its peak in Australia, it had around 70 chapters and over 1,000 members and associates nationwide, making it the largest club in the country. It was founded by Clint Jacks in Brisbane, ...
also have a presence in the wider Nelson-Tasman area.
Electricity
The Nelson City Municipal Electricity Department (MED) established the city's public electricity supply in 1923, with electricity generated by a coal-fired power station at Wakefield Quay. The city was connected to the newly-commissioned
Cobb hydroelectric power station in 1944 and to the rest of the South Island grid in 1958. The grid connection saw the Wakefield Quay power station was relegated to standby duty before being decommissioned in 1964.
Today, Nelson Electricity operates the local distribution network in the former MED area, which covers the CBD and inner suburbs, while Network Tasman operates the local distribution network in the outer suburbs (including Stoke, Tāhunanui and Atawhai) and rural areas.
Transport
Air transport
Nelson Airport is located southwest of the city, at
Annesbrook
Annesbrook is an industrial suburb of Nelson, New Zealand.
It lies between and Nelson Airport to the southwest of Nelson city centre and north of Stoke.
The Nelson Classic Car Museum (which was previously the World of WearableArt & Classic Ca ...
. The airport operates a single terminal and 1,347-metre (4,420 ft) runway, and in 2018 was the
fifth-busiest airport in New Zealand by passenger numbers. There are more than a million passenger movements using the airport terminal annually and the airport averages 90 aircraft movements every day, with a plane taking off or landing every 4.5 minutes during scheduled hours.
It is primarily used for domestic flights, with regular flights to and from Auckland, Christchurch, Hamilton, Kapiti Coast, Palmerston North and Wellington. Nelson Airport is home to
Air Nelson
Air Nelson was a regional airline based in Nelson, New Zealand. It was founded as an independent airline in 1979. Air New Zealand took a 50% shareholding in 1988 and 100% ownership in 1995. Air Nelson operated services on provincial routes under ...
, which operates and maintains New Zealand's largest domestic airline fleet and was also the headquarters of
Origin Pacific Airways
Origin Pacific Airways was an airline based in Nelson in New Zealand. Its main base was at Nelson Airport (NSN). It ceased passenger operations on 10 August 2006, and its residual freight operations on 15 September 2006.
History
Starting ...
until their collapse in 2006.
Sounds Air
Sounds Air is a New Zealand airline based at Picton. The airline was founded in 1986 by Cliff and Diane Marchant to provide low cost flights to the Marlborough Sounds. The airline has a maintenance facility at Omaka aerodrome with its Soun ...
offers flights from Nelson to Wellington.
In 2006, the airport received restricted international airport status to facilitate small private jets.
In February 2018, the approach road to the airport was flooded when the adjoining Jenkins Creek burst its banks during a storm that brought king tides and strong winds. The airport was closed for about one hour. In 2022, the NZ SeaRise programme identified Nelson airport as one area of particular vulnerability to
sea level rise
Globally, sea levels are rising due to human-caused climate change. Between 1901 and 2018, the globally averaged sea level rose by , or 1–2 mm per year on average.IPCC, 2019Summary for Policymakers InIPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cry ...
, with a projected subsidence of per year.
The airport's Chief Executive said that the proposed runway extension would be planned around the latest sea level rise forecast, and that the airport was "here to stay", despite the concerns over the threats posed by sea level rise.
Maritime transport
Port Nelson is the maritime gateway for the
Nelson
Nelson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey
* ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers
* ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...
,
Tasman
Tasman most often refers to Abel Tasman (1603–1659), Dutch explorer.
Tasman may also refer to:
Animals and plants
* Tasman booby
* Tasman flax-lily
* Tasman parakeet (disambiguation)
* Tasman starling
* Tasman whale
People
* Tasman (name), ...
and Marlborough regions and a vital hub for economic activity. The following
shipping companies
The following articles list companies that operate ships:
* List of freight ship companies for companies that own and operate the freight ships (Bulk Carriers, Container Ships, Roll-on/Roll-off (for Freights), Tankers and Gas Carriers).
** List o ...
call at Port Nelson:
*
Australian National Line
Australian National Line (ANL) was a coastal shipping line established in by the Government of Australia in 1956. It was sold in 1998 by the Howard government to CMA CGM.
History
Australian National Line was formed on 1 October 1956 as the ...
/
CMA CGM
CMA CGM S.A. is a French container transportation and shipping company. It is the world’s 3rd largest container shipping company, using 257 shipping routes between 420 ports in 160 countries. Its headquarters are in Marseille, France The name ...
*
Maersk Line
Maersk Line or Maersk SeaLand is a Danish international container shipping company and the largest operating subsidiary of the Maersk Group, a Danish business conglomerate. Founded in 1928, it is the world's largest container shipping company by ...
*
Mediterranean Shipping Company
Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. (MSC) is an international shipping line founded by Gianluigi Aponte in Italy in 1970, with headquarters in Switzerland since 1978. The privately held company is owned by the Aponte family. It has been the lar ...
*
Pacifica Shipping
Pacifica may refer to:
Art
* ''Pacifica'' (statue), a 1938 statue by Ralph Stackpole for the Golden Gate International Exposition
Places
* Pacifica, California, a city in the United States
** Pacifica Pier, a fishing pier
* Pacifica, a conceiv ...
*
Toyofuji Shipping
Toyofuji Shipping Co is a roll-on/roll-off shipping company based in Nagoya, Japan and owned by Toyota Group. It has a subsidiary branch in Europe for short sea operations within the region, located in Belgium.
Overview
The company was created ...
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Swire Shipping
In the mid-1994, a group of local businessmen, fronted by local politician
Owen Jennings
Owen Jennings is a former New Zealand politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1996 to 2002, representing the ACT New Zealand party.
Early years
Before entering politics, Jennings was a farmer. Jennings was active in New Zealand Federat ...
proposed building a
deep-water port
A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as Ham ...
featuring a one-kilometre-long wharf extending from the Boulder Bank into Tasman Bay, where giant ships could berth and manoeuvre with ease. Known as Port Kakariki, the $97 million project was to become the hub to ship West Coast coal to Asia, as well as handling logs, which would be barged across Tasman Bay from Mapua.
In January 2010 the Western Blue Highway, a Nelson to
New Plymouth
New Plymouth ( mi, Ngāmotu) is the major city of the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the English city of Plymouth, Devon from where the first English settlers to New Plymouth migrated. ...
ferry service, was proposed by
Port Taranaki
Port Taranaki is a port complex located in New Plymouth, New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ...
. However, to date neither the
Interislander
Interislander is a road and rail ferry service across New Zealand's Cook Strait, between Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island. It is owned and operated by state-owned rail operator KiwiRail. Three roll-on roll-off (R ...
nor
Bluebridge
StraitNZ (formerly Strait Shipping Limited and Bluebridge) is a New Zealand transport firm that operates roll-on/roll-off freight and passenger shipping across the Cook Strait, between Wellington in the North Island and Picton, New Zealand, Picto ...
have shown any interest in the route.
Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company
The 'Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company' was formed 31 March 1901 from the earlier companies of Nathaniel Edwards & Co (1857–1880) and the Anchor Steam Shipping Company (1880–1901). The Anchor Company never departed from its original aim of providing services to the people of Nelson and the West Coast of the
South Island
The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...
and was never a large company; it only owned 37 ships during its history. At its peak around 1930 there were 16 vessels in the fleet. The company operated three nightly return trips per week ferry service between Nelson and
Wellington
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by me ...
and a daily freight service was maintained between the two ports in conjunction with the Pearl Kasper Shipping Company while another service carried general cargo on a Nelson-
Onehunga
Onehunga is a suburb of Auckland in New Zealand and the location of the Port of Onehunga, the city's small port on the Manukau Harbour. It is south of the Auckland CBD, city centre, close to the volcano, volcanic cone of Maungakiekie / One Tree ...
route. In 1974, the Anchor Company was sold and merged into the
Union Company
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited was once the biggest shipping line in the southern hemisphere and New Zealand's largest private-sector employer. It was incorporated by James Mills in Dunedin in 1875 with the backing of a Scot ...
.
Public transport
NBUS
NBus provides public transport services between Nelson and
Richmond
Richmond most often refers to:
* Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States
* Richmond, London, a part of London
* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England
* Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada
* Richmond, California, ...
, as well as on four local routes around Nelson city.
The Late Late Bus is a weekend night transport service between Nelson and Richmond. NBus Cards were replaced by
Bee cards on 3 August 2020.
InterCity
InterCity (commonly abbreviated ''IC'' on timetables and tickets) is the classification applied to certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe. Such trains (in contrast to regional, local, or commuter trains) generally call at m ...
provides daily bus services connecting Nelson with towns and cities around the South Island.
Taxis and shuttle vans
Taxi
A taxi, also known as a taxicab or simply a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choice ...
companies in Nelson include the following:
* Nelson Bays Cabs
* Nelson City Taxis
There are no conventional bus services to
Nelson Airport: the airport is served by a fleet of shuttle vans provided by several operators including Nelson Bays Shuttles & Coaches and Super Shuttles. Airport
shuttle vans typically travel non-stop to or from the airport and about the city and suburbs picking up or dropping passengers at each address.
Rail transport
Nelson is one of only three major urban areas in New Zealand without a rail connection – the others being
Taupo and
Queenstown. The
Nelson Section
The Nelson Section was an isolated government-owned railway line between Nelson and Glenhope in the Tasman district of New Zealand's South Island. While part of the New Zealand Government Railways, the section was never connected to the nation ...
was an isolated, gauge, government-owned railway line between Nelson and
Glenhope. It operated for years between 1876 and 1955.
In 1886, a route was proposed from Nelson to the junction of the
Midland Railway Company
The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844. The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby, where it had its headquarters. It am ...
at Buller via
Richmond
Richmond most often refers to:
* Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States
* Richmond, London, a part of London
* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England
* Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada
* Richmond, California, ...
,
Waimea West
The Waimea Plains is a small but fertile area of low-lying land southwest of the port city of Nelson, situated on Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere in the South Island of New Zealand. It is irrigated by the Waimea River from the Waimea Inlet in the n ...
,
Upper Moutere
Upper Moutere (originally called Sarau by its founding German settlers) is a locality in the Tasman District near Motueka at the top of New Zealand's South Island.
History
As early as 1839 the New Zealand Company had resolved to "take steps t ...
,
Motueka
Motueka is a town in the South Island of New Zealand, close to the mouth of the Motueka River on the western shore of Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere. It is the second largest in the Tasman Region, with a population of as of
The surrounding dis ...
, the Motueka Valley,
Tadmor and
Glenhope.
The only sign of rail activity in Nelson today is a short heritage operation run by the
Nelson Railway Society
The Nelson Railway Society operates a short heritage railway line in the Founders Heritage Park, Nelson, New Zealand.
The society has recovered and now utilises station buildings from a couple of former stations on the Nelson Section, including t ...
from
Founders Heritage Park
Founders Heritage Park is a museum in Nelson, New Zealand, housing a number of groups with historical themes, including transport. A short heritage railway line is operated by the Nelson Railway Society. Several shops operate in the museum, selli ...
using their own line between
Wakefield Grove and
Grove. The society has proposed future extensions of their line, possibly into or near the city centre. There have been
several proposals to connect Nelson to the South Island rail network, but none have come to fruition.
Horse tramway
The
Dun Mountain Railway
The Dun Mountain Railway was a privately owned and operated narrow gauge, long horse-drawn tramway from chromite mines in the vicinity of Duppa Lode on the eastern slopes of Wooded Peak to Nelson port in the Tasman District of New Zealand's ...
was a horse drawn tramway serving a mine.
Road transport
The Nelson urban area is served by , which runs in a north to southwest direction. The highway travels through the city and nearby town of
Richmond
Richmond most often refers to:
* Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States
* Richmond, London, a part of London
* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England
* Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada
* Richmond, California, ...
, continuing southwest across the plains of the
Wairoa
Wairoa is a town and territorial authority district in New Zealand's North Island. The town is the northernmost in the Hawke's Bay region, and is located on the northern shore of Hawke Bay at the mouth of the Wairoa River and to the west of ...
and
Motueka River
The Motueka River is located in the north of the South Island of New Zealand and is a popular tourist destination for watersports and fishing. The Motueka flows from the mountains 40 km west of the city of Nelson in the southeast of the ca ...
s. Plans to construct a motorway linking North Nelson to
Brightwater
Brightwater (Māori language, Māori: ''Wairoa'') is a town southwest of Nelson, New Zealand, Nelson in Tasman Region, Tasman district in the South Island of New Zealand. It stands on the banks of the Wairoa River, Tasman, Wairoa River. Bright ...
in the south have so far been successful. A number of studies have been undertaken since 2007 including the 2007 North Nelson to Brightwater Study, the Southern Link Road Project and the Arterial Traffic Study. On 28 June 2013, the Nelson Mayor
Aldo Miccio
Cataldo (Aldo) Miccio (born 1971) is a New Zealand former local-body politician. He was the Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand, Mayor of Nelson for one term from 2010 to 2013.
Background
Miccio is married to Kimberley, a former Sydney hotel reserv ...
and Nelson MP
Nick Smith jointly wrote to Transport Minister
Gerry Brownlee
Gerard Anthony Brownlee (born 4 February 1956) is a New Zealand politician of the New Zealand National Party. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1996, was Leader of the House, Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery and Minister of ...
seeking for the Southern Link to be given Road of National Significance (RoNS) status.
Other significant road projects proposed over the years include a cross-city
tunnel
A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, and enclosed except for the entrance and exit, commonly at each end. A pipeline is not a tunnel, though some recent tunnels have used immersed tube cons ...
from Tāhunanui Drive to Haven Road; or from
Annesbrook
Annesbrook is an industrial suburb of Nelson, New Zealand.
It lies between and Nelson Airport to the southwest of Nelson city centre and north of Stoke.
The Nelson Classic Car Museum (which was previously the World of WearableArt & Classic Ca ...
(or Tāhunanui) to Emano Street in
Victory Square; or from Tāhunanui to
Washington Valley.
The passenger and freight company
Newmans Coach Lines
Newmans Coach Lines was an Australian coach charter company with operations in Sydney and Cairns.
History
In 1987, the Sydney coach operations of Chester Coaches were purchased by New Zealand-based Newmans Coach Lines. Newmans also purchased t ...
was formed in Nelson in 1879, and merged with Transport Nelson in 1972.
Education
Secondary schools
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Garin College
Garin College is a New Zealand Catholic, integrated, co-educational day and boarding secondary school in Nelson on the northern outskirts of Richmond. The college opened on 28 January 2002 to serve the Catholic community, particularly in the upp ...
*
Nayland College
Nayland College is a coeducational state secondary school located in Stoke, Nelson, New Zealand. It is one of three secondary schools in Nelson which are coeducational. The school was officially opened on 3 February 1966.
Crest
The crest is div ...
*
Nelson College
Nelson College is the oldest state secondary school in New Zealand. It is an all-boys school in the City of Nelson that teaches from years 9 to 13. In addition, it runs a private preparatory school for year 7 and 8 boys. The school also has ...
*
Nelson College for Girls
, motto_translation = Loyalty, honesty and wisdom
, type = State secondary, day and boarding
, established = 1883; years ago
, address = Trafalgar St
, city = Nels ...
Tertiary institutions
Nelson hosts two tertiary education institutions, the main one being
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) is a public tertiary education institution at the top of the South Island in New Zealand. NMIT's main campus is in Nelson with other campuses in Blenheim, Marlborough, Woodbourne and Richmond. I ...
. The institute has two main campuses, one in Nelson and the other in
Blenheim, in the neighbouring
Marlborough region
Marlborough District or the Marlborough Region (, or ''Tauihu''), commonly known simply as Marlborough, is one of the 16 regions of New Zealand, located on the northeast of the South Island. Marlborough is a unitary authority, both a distric ...
. The Institute has been providing tertiary education in the Nelson-Marlborough region for the last 100 years.
Nelson also has a
University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was ...
College of Education campus which currently has an intake two out of every three years for the primary sector
Media
Broadcasting
The city is served by all major national radio and television stations, with terrestrial television (
Freeview Freeview may refer to:
*Freeview (Australia), the marketing name for the digital terrestrial television platform in Australia
*Freeview (New Zealand), a digital satellite and digital terrestrial television platform in New Zealand
*Freeview (UK), a ...
) and FM radio. Local radio stations include The Hits (formerly
Radio Nelson
Radio Nelson was a New Zealand radio station in Nelson. The station was started by Radio New Zealand (which at the time was known as the ''New Zealand Broadcasting Board'') in 1932.
The station originally broadcast on 1340AM with the callsign ...
),
More FM
More FM is a New Zealand radio network that plays hot adult contemporary music. It is operated by MediaWorks New Zealand.
More FM broadcasts in 25 centres throughout New Zealand on 81 transmitters with a mix of local and network programming. ...
(formerly
Fifeshire FM
Fifeshire FM was a Nelson, New Zealand radio station owned by RadioWorks. The station broadcast on 93.0FM in Nelson, 92.0FM in Motueka and Tākaka, and 94.1FM in Murchison.
Fifeshire FM first started as a summer station known as Radio Fifeshir ...
), The Breeze,
ZM (formerly
The Planet 97FM
The Planet 97FM was a hit music radio station in Nelson, New Zealand. History
The station was founded in 1999 by Kevin Ihaia who was the former manager and founder of Fifeshire FM in Nelson. Ihaia left Fifeshire in 1998 after the station was sol ...
) and community station
Fresh FM. The city has one local television station,
Mainland Television.
Print
''
The Nelson Examiner
''The Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle'' (also known as ''The Nelson ailyExaminer'', was the first newspaper published in New Zealand's South Island. It was launched in 1842 by Charles Elliott (1811–1876), a few weeks after New Zealan ...
'' was the first newspaper published in the South Island. It was established by
Charles Elliott (1811–1876) in 1842, within a few weeks of
New Zealand Company
The New Zealand Company, chartered in the United Kingdom, was a company that existed in the first half of the 19th century on a business model focused on the systematic colonisation of New Zealand. The company was formed to carry out the principl ...
settlers arriving in Nelson.
Other early newspapers were ''The Colonist'' and the ''
Nelson Evening Mail
''The Nelson Mail'' is a 4-day a week newspaper in Nelson, New Zealand
(Let him, who has earned it, bear the palm)
, image_map = Nelson CC.PNG
, mapsize = 200px
, map_caption =
, coordinates ...
''. Today the ''
Nelson Mail
''The Nelson Mail'' is a 4-day a week newspaper in Nelson, New Zealand owned by media business Stuff Ltd. It was founded in 1866 as ''The Nelson Evening Mail''; the first edition was published on 5 March 1866. It absorbed another local paper, ' ...
'' publishes four days a week and is part of the
Fairfax
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Places United States
* Fairfax, California
* Fairfax Avenue, a major thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California
* Fairfax District, Los Angeles, California, centered on Fairfax Avenue
* Fairfax, Georgia
* Fairfax, Indiana
* Fa ...
Group. The ''Nelson Mail'' also publishes the weekly community papers ''The Nelson Leader'' and ''The Tasman Leader''. The city's largest circulating newspaper is the locally owned ''Nelson Weekly'', which is published every Wednesday.
''WildTomato'' is a glossy monthly lifestyle magazine, focused on the Nelson and Marlborough regions – the Top of the South Island of New Zealand. The regional magazine was launched by Murray Farquhar as a 16-page local magazine in Nelson in July 2006.
Notable people
*
Sophia Anstice
Sophia Anstice (née Catesby, 5 November 1849 – 1 August 1926) was a New Zealand dressmaker, draper and businesswoman who started a chain of dressmaking and drapery shops in 19th century New Zealand.
Early life
Anstice was born on 5 Novemb ...
– seamstress and businesswoman
*
Harry Atmore
Harry Atmore (14 December 1870 – 20 August 1946) was a New Zealand Independent Member of Parliament for Nelson in the South Island.
Harry Atmore held the Nelson seat as an Independent for a total of thirty years from 1911 to 1914 and th ...
– politician
*
Francis Bell Francis Bell may refer to:
*Arthur Bell (martyr) (1590–1643), also known as Francis Bell, Franciscan and English martyr
*Dillon Bell (Francis Dillon Bell; 1822–1898), New Zealand politician, father of the New Zealand Prime Minister
*Francis Bel ...
– politician
*
George Bennett George Bennett, Bennette, or Bennet may refer to:
Politics and law
*George Bennett (Ontario politician) (1888–1948), Canadian politician, mayor of Windsor
* George Bennett (Wisconsin politician) (1810–1888), Wisconsin state senator
*George C. ...
– cyclist
*
Chester Borrows
Kerry James "Chester" Borrows (born 20 June 1957) is a National Party politician who served as a Member of the New Zealand Parliament (MP) from 2005 to 2017.
Borrows worked as a police officer, including as a sole charge officer, and received ...
– politician
*
Mark Bright
Mark Abraham Bright (born 6 June 1962) is an English sports correspondent and former footballer.
Born to a Gambian father and English mother, he was adopted into a foster family in Stoke-on-Trent at an early age. He played non-league football ...
– rugby union player
*
Jeremy Brockie
Jeremy Russell Brockie (born 7 October 1987) is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a forward.
He has represented New Zealand at senior international level, including the 2010 FIFA World Cup and at the 2008 Olympic Games, and was ...
– footballer
*
Cory Brown
Cory James Brown (born 3 April 1996) is a New Zealand footballer who currently plays for Tasman United.
Career
Brown spending time in his native New Zealand playing semi-professionally, Brown moved to the United States to play college socce ...
– footballer
*
Paul Brydon
Paul David Brydon (born 8 December 1951) is a former road and track cyclist from New Zealand, who won the bronze medal in the men's 4000 m team pursuit at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in his native Christchurch. Brydon also represented his nativ ...
– footballer
*
Mel Courtney
Melvyn Francis Courtney (born 2 October 1943) is a Nelson City Councillor and a former Labour then Independent Member of Parliament for Nelson, in the South Island of New Zealand.
Early life and family
Courtney was born in Christchurch on 2 Oc ...
– politician
*
Ryan Crotty
Ryan Stevenson Crotty (born 23 September 1988) is a New Zealand-born rugby union footballer. He currently plays as a midfield back for the Kubota Spears in the Japanese Top League.
Crotty played 48 tests for New Zealand's international team, t ...
– rugby union player
*
Rod Dixon
Rodney Phillip Dixon (born 13 July 1950) is a former New Zealand middle- to long-distance runner. He won the bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the New Zealand at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1972 Olympics in Munich, and in 1983 won the New Yo ...
– athlete
* Dame Sister
Pauline Engel
Dame Sister Pauline Frances Engel (10 September 1930 – 15 November 2017) was a New Zealand educator and Roman Catholic religious sister. A member of the Sisters of Mercy, she served as the third principal of Carmel College. Prior to running ...
– nun and educator
*
Rose Frank
Rosaline Margaret Frank (21 December 1864 – 6 October 1954), known as Rose Frank, was a New Zealand photographer. She was born in Nelson, New Zealand, Nelson, New Zealand, on 21 December 1864. When she was 21, she started working as an assist ...
– photographer
*
John Guy – cricket player
*
Frederick Nelson Jones
Frederick Nelson Jones (F N Jones) (4 May 1881 – 29 August 1962) was a New Zealand saddler, photographer, amusement park owner and inventor. He was born in Nelson, New Zealand on 4 May 1881.
Frederick Nelson Jones was most well known for ...
– inventor
*
Nina Jones
Nina Lucy Mary Jones (22 June 1871 – 8 February 1926) was an artist and botanical illustrator from Nelson, New Zealand.
Biography
Nina Jones was born in the Christchurch suburb of St Martins to Eliza and Charles Jones, before moving to Nelson ...
– painter
*
Charles Littlejohn
Charles William Berry Littlejohn (4 January 1889 – 4 August 1960) was a New Zealand-born rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Born in Nelson, New Zealand, on 4 January 1889, Littlejohn was the son of William ...
– rower
*
Liam Malone
Liam Bevan Malone (born 23 December 1993) is a former New Zealand para-athlete, primarily competing in sprint events. He represented New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, where he won gold medals in the Athletics at the ...
– athlete
*
Simon Mannering
Simon Alexander Mannering (born 28 August 1986) is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He played for the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL. A New Zealand international second row forward, ...
– rugby league player
*
Aldo Miccio
Cataldo (Aldo) Miccio (born 1971) is a New Zealand former local-body politician. He was the Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand, Mayor of Nelson for one term from 2010 to 2013.
Background
Miccio is married to Kimberley, a former Sydney hotel reserv ...
– politician
*
Edgar Neale
Edgar Rollo Neale (24 November 1889 – 25 July 1960), often called Gar Neale, was Mayor and Member of Parliament for Nelson, New Zealand, a strong supporter of the Nelson railway, and a representative cricketer.
Background
Gar Neale's ...
– politician
*
Geoffrey Palmer Geoffrey Palmer may refer to:
Politicians
*Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 1st Baronet (1598–1670), English lawyer and politician
*Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 3rd Baronet (1655–1732), English politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicestershire
*Geoffrey Pal ...
– politician and former Prime Minister
*
Nick Smith – politician
*
Frank Howard Nelson Stapp
Frank Howard Nelson Stapp (1908–1993) was a notable New Zealand railway worker and concert impresario. He was born in Nelson, New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consi ...
– concert impresario
*
Rhian Sheehan
Rhian Sheehan is a New Zealand composer and producer born in Nelson and now based in Wellington. He is known for his fusing of orchestral chamber music and piano, with ambient electronic and post-rock cinematic atmospheres. He has also written m ...
– composer and musician
*
Riki van Steeden – footballer
*
Mike Ward – politician
*
Guy Williams – comedian
Panoramas
See also
*
List of twin towns and sister cities in New Zealand
This is a list of territorial authorities in New Zealand which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Eu ...
References
Bibliography
* ''A Complete Guide To Heraldry'' by A.C. Fox-Davies, 1909.
External links
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Historic images of Nelson from the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa TongarewaNelson City CouncilNelson Tasman Tourism
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Former provincial capitals of New Zealand
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Populated places established in 1858
Port cities in New Zealand
South Island
Wine regions of New Zealand
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Geographical centres