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.

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.

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Shipping and trade on the Ōpaoa River

Dodson George

Henry and George Dodson

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Baton Valley Gold

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Newman Brothers

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Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum and Resource guide

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Main trunk railway line

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Aotearoa New Zealand Histories - Lesson Plans

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Aorere gold

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Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum guide years 9 and 10

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Tasman Ports timeline

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Port Nelson timeline

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Onekaka Ore

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Telegraph Made World of Difference

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The Nelson Railway…to Nowhere

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Nelson Hops Lead the World

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Asbestos and the Chaffeys

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Marlborough Aviation

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Tobacco

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Marlborough Sounds Whaling

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Marlborough's wine story

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Dun Mountain Railway (1862-1907)

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Early Pastoralism in Marlborough

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Wakamarina Gold

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Marlborough's Flax Industry

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