http://www.theprow.org.nz/enterprise/?start=0 content= en http://www.wotzwot.com/rssxl.php http://www.theprow.org.nz/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... http://www.theprow.org.nz/main-trunk-railway-line-history/ 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 ... http://www.theprow.org.nz/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.. http://www.theprow.org.nz/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... http://www.theprow.org.nz/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... http://www.theprow.org.nz/onekaka-ore/ It took nearly 50 years of exploration, analysis and debate before Onekaka’s rich iron ore resource was commercially processed in 1922. http://www.theprow.org.nz/aorere-gold/ 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... http://www.theprow.org.nz/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... http://www.theprow.org.nz/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... http://www.theprow.org.nz/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...