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English: A map of of the Marlborough wine region and geographical indication, showing the main vineyard concentrations in three sub-regions. Date: 31 May 2022: Source:
The Marlborough wine region is by far New Zealand's largest, accounting in 2020 for three quarters of the country's wine ... Map of the Marlborough wine region.
For the Māori roll, Marlborough is part of the Te Tai Tonga electorate, as is the entire South Island. [16] The electorate was first contested in the 1996 general election, the first under the new MMP voting system. From 1938 to 1996, the region was covered by the Marlborough electorate. [17]
Winemaking and viticulture date back to New Zealand's colonial era.New Zealand's first vineyard was planted in 1819 by missionary Samuel Marsden in Kerikeri. [6] James Busby, New Zealand's governing British Resident in the 1830s, planted vineyards on his land near Waitangi, having earlier established what is now the Hunter Valley wine region during his time in Australia.
Marlborough split away from the Nelson Province because the majority of the income of the Provincial Council came from land sales in the Marlborough region, but the funds were mostly used in the Nelson region. Land sales in Nelson and Marlborough netted the Nelson Provincial Council £33,000 and £160,000, respectively. Of that, £200 were ...
Marlborough State School, circa 2021. Marlborough State School is a government primary (Early Childhood-6) school for boys and girls at Magog Road (15] [16] In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 34 students with 5 teachers (3 full-time equivalent) and 6 non-teaching staff (3 full-time equivalent). [17]
Picton from the air Picton, a park at the coast. Picton (Māori: Waitohi) is a town in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand's South Island.The town is located near the head of the Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui, 25 km (16 mi) north of Blenheim and 65 km (40 mi) west of Wellington.
The current regions and most of their councils came into being through a local government reform in 1989 that took place under the Local Government Act 1974. The regional councils replaced the more than 700 ad hoc bodies that had been formed in the preceding century – roads boards, catchment boards, drainage boards, pest control boards ...