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Martinborough
This month is Toast Martinborough wine, food & music festival, an extrememly popular event held each year. Expand your wine horizons as you savour wines from Martinborough.
Scoop - See Hollie Smith on stage at the 2007 Toast Martinborough
Other great performers on show this year include perennial favourites The Warratahs and the Beat Girls, to the Nairobi Trio and Eric Clapton.
TravelScoop - This year's Toast Martinborough festival features 10 participating vineyards offering a selection of new and limited release wines splendidly matched to culinary delights from Wellington and the Wairarapa's top restaurants.
Wines From Martinborough is a winemakers collective promoting the distinctive fine premium wine from vineyards in the Martinborough region of New Zealand to the international wine market.
Martinborough.com For everything you need to know about where to wine and dine in Martinborough.
MartinboroughNZ Or perhaps this has everything you need to know about where to wine and dine in Martinborough.
Go Wairarapa profile of Martinborough region it also includes activities, museums and accommodation available in Martinborough.
Book - Canoes of Kupe by Roberta McIntyre
This is a comprehensive account of the history of the Martinborough district, from the beginnings of settlement by Maori through to the booming present-day wine industry. This book is based on extensive research in private and public archives and secondary literature, as well as making use of oral history interviews.
Martinborough Library This month Martinborough Library is doing a display this month highlighting 'tartan noir' - Scottish crime novels/novelists including Ian Rankin (Edinbrugh), Quintin Jardine (Glasgow), Stuart MacBride (Aberdean), and Denise Mina (Glasgow).
NZine Dorothy visited Martinborough this year and on this forum tells her impressions of the town. If you join this free NZ online community you too can share your experiences of Martinborough.
NZ Herald What has been going on in Martinborough that made the NZ Herald.
The Age This Australian newspaper is so impressed by Martinborough that they wrote up a story about how it is 'one of those must-see destinations'.
Times-Age : Reaping the Fruits of the vine Times-Age beer-drinker COLIN MARSHALL reports on the book 'A toast to Martinborough and the Wairarapa': stories from the vineyards?. The tales of the winemakers, the vineyard managers and the people who planted the first vines. This book is available from any of the libraries.
Wairarapa Times-Age : Art attracts visitors to Martinborough - the Art and Craft Show at the Martinborough Town Hall, ran from Saturday through to Labour Day and included pieces mainly from Wairarapa artists and a small craft section that included photographs and jewellery.
AA Directions Online - Wild & Free, John Cranna takes his brother to the Wairarapa.
New beginnings: Martinborough wine New Zealand's Martinborough wine region is only 25 years old, but it is producing wines like an old hand.
Martinborough Fair Another famous event held twice a year in Martinborough.
Martinborough Colonial Museum In 1894 it was built to be the town library and now it has been refurbished as a colonial cottage of the early 1900's.
Book - Hometown sketches from Martinborough by Frank Fyfe
This book has some wonderful sketches of Martinborough wooden buildings accompanied by interesting information.
Book - Martinborough: this is the story of a town that grew slowly into a self-contained community, a town that bears the name of it's founder
A book that covers most aspects of Martinboroughs history, from accommodation to the war.
Book - Martinborough: early 1900 by Ted Finlay
This is an excerpt from the local history book “Memories of South Wairarapa”.
Circus ; cinema, bar, café. Enjoy a range of Arthouse films in comfort at Martinborough's boutique cinema.
Martinborough Health Centre Is currently being upgraded and is looking fantastic! Check out further information on it here.
Te Ara : The Encylcopedia of New Zealand - Martinborough began in 1870 as the township of Wharekaka. In 1879 John Martin, a wealthy local runholder, purchased neighbouring land and founded a new town, naming it after himself.
NZ History Online Martinborough First World War memorial.
Book - Birdy's Pride: Coaching reminiscences of Martinborough 1903-1916 by Herbert F. Bird as told to Frank Fyfe
This is the story of the Martinborough to Featherston mailcoach that today lives at Cobblestones Museum. This is Birdy's story.
Book - Centennial Martinborough School 1872-1972
As the title says this is about the first one hundred years of Martinborough School. A very interesting read, it includes some quite old photos and many a story from former teachers and pupils.
Book - From bells to pagers: Martinborough Fire Brigade 1906-2006, one hundred years of service by Mike Beckett
An interesting and informative book illustrating how the brigade has evolved and diversified to meet the demands of a growing town, advancing technology and social upheavals
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A library for Carterton was a priority for early settlers and the one established in 1874 …more |
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In October 1871, in a letter to the Mercury, the Hon. G.M. Waterhouse of Huangurua Station …more |
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The Featherston Library started life as the ‘Featherston Literary Institute’ in April, 1896. It was officially opened by Mr Alfred Matthews who had gifted the land and funds … more |
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