The board of the Arrowtown Promotion and Business Association is elected annually by the Association’s members who are business ratepayers.
Central to its work, is the belief that the well being of the town is dependent on the preservation of its historic heritage and its natural surrounds.
APBA promotes Arrowtown’s tourism, and liaises with its major funder, the Queenstown Lakes District Council and other collaborators Destination Queenstown, Chamber of Commerce.
In the 1950’s many New Zealander’s built cribs ( holiday houses) in Arrowtown and came here for their summer holidays.
Australia’s first saint, Sister Mary MacKillop visited Arrowtown in 1897 and set up a Catholic School. Part of this school can still be visited today.
The first jail in Arrowtown was simply a log. You were chained up to it. The later stone jail still exists and is in Cardigan Street. It is New Zealand’s 4th oldest jail.
The Maori name for the river is Haihainui which means ‘Big Scratches’.
They used to sell Morphine in the local drug store. That was back in the goldmining days of course!
The trees in Arrowtown’s beautiful avenues are Sycamore, Ash, Oak, Elm, and Rowan. The first avenue was planted in 1867.
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