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Britain was being dirty. The world had opened up. Along with Europe, Britain stretched across the globe, colonising old lands, settling new nations. But indigenous people were already there, guardians of these lands. So they were captured and taken as slaves, or killed, or worse. In some cases, under Italian born Columbus, Latino people were fed to dogs – alive, for fun. Now there was a particular group of Christians in a town called Clapham, in England. They read the newspapers, saw the slaves passing through, and thought to themselves, “We don’t believe God is well pleased with this sort of behaviour.” ....
Brya Ingram/Stuff The now peaceful Tua Marina River was once the site of an armed conflict between men out to arrest an alleged arsonist and a group full of men, women and children; the story widely known today is often light on detail and misunderstood. It was once called the Wairau Massacre, now it’s known as the Affray. At the time of the battle, Māori were seen as the troublemakers and the settlers, acting on the side of the law. Now, time has flipped the narrative and rewritten the script. Skara Bohny reports. Almost 50 settlers set out into the Wairau Valley in 1843 determined to arrest Te Rauparaha. At least 22 of them never came back. ....
Dr George Cleghorn moved to Marlborough in 1876. The talented surgeon left a long-standing impression. Dr George Cleghorn was instrumental in setting up a fever ward at Wairau Hospital. Yet, even as people were dying from typhoid in the 1890s, he was reprimanded for treating Māori there. Maia Hart reports. When Dr George Cleghorn moved to Marlborough in 1876, he was a fresh-faced 26-year-old. But it didn t take him long to get to work at a general practice in Blenheim. And by 1878, he was appointed surgeon of the newly opened Wairau Hospital. It was a position he would hold for two decades, during which time his “fame as a brilliant surgeon” spread across New Zealand. ....