Salt from Lake Grassmere - Roadside Stories

A Manatū Taonga audio guide to Lake Grassmere and its salt industry. Check out the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's audio guide in the image carousel above.

Pink-tinged crystallisation ponds at Lake Grassmere produce up to 70,000 tonnes of salt from sea water each year -- about half of New Zealand's salt needs. Salt was first produced at the lake in the 1940s.

Salt,
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/salt

Lake Grassmere today,
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/salt/3/1

Marlborough region: extractive industries,
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/marlborough-region/7

Archival audio: Taste New Zealand (videorecording). Auckland: Television New Zealand, 1993.

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Roadside Stories are a series of audio guides to places of interest on major road trips in New Zealand. Each guide tells the story of an attraction along the way -- its people, its history, its cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit http://www.mch.govt.nz/roadside/