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Enterprise

The top of the South Island has long been an area of enterprise and ingenuity. These are stories about those enterprises - business, farming, fishing, industry; and the infrastructure which has supported them.

See related stories on this site:

• Waikoropupu Springs and Hydro Walkway
• Timber Pioneers - Brownlee and Baigent
• Maori horticultural skills and their soils
• Maori and Business
• Pakohe - Argillite
• The lime and marble of Takaka Hill
• Sealords
• Edwin Fox
• Literary Nelson - books and newspapers
• Albert Tuffnell
• Colonial furniture makers in Nelson

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Stories

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1. Early Pastoralism in Marlborough
   Marlborough’s earliest pastoral history was one of initial squatter land occupation, battling the twin scourges of rabbits and sheep scab, and event... read more
2. Main trunk railway line
   Parochialism and politics, the Great Depression and two World Wars meant that completion of the South Island’s Main Trunk Line was a slow, tortuous ... read more
3. Marlborough Aviation
   With its clear skies, wide, open valleys and central New Zealand location, Marlborough has been a significant aviation centre for nearly 90 years.. read more
4. The Nelson Railway
   Despite more than 80 years of drive and determination on the part of Nelsonians to work towards a railway that would end their isolation from the rest... read more
5. Telegraph Made World of Difference
   The South and North Islands were connected by an under-sea telegraph cable across Cook Strait in 1866. Ten years later, the telegraph connection betwe... read more
6. Onekaka Ore
   It took nearly 50 years of exploration, analysis and debate before Onekaka’s rich iron ore resource was commercially processed in 1922. read more
7. Lure of gold - Aorere
   A few specks of gold, found in the Aorere Valley by a musterer in October 1856, saw more than 2000 men flood into Massacre Bay over the following thre... read more
8. The Hop Centre of New Zealand
   At the centre of a good beer lies quality aromatic hops and, as luck would have it, the early English and German settlers to Nelson found the region p... read more
9. Asbestos and the Chaffeys
   A place to hide was what the Chaffeys sought when they moved to the Cobb Valley in Nelson’s remote northwest mountains. It was their desire for soli... read more
10. Tobacco
    The growth and production of tobacco brought wealth, jobs and growth to Motueka and was integral to the social fabric of the district for more than 70... read more