Waikari

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Waikari ( māori for digging ) is a small town in the Canterbury region on the South Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 7 near the Weka Pass.

From April 6 1882 to January 15, 1978, the place by the Waiau Branch railway connection. Today, only a part of the route through the Weka Pass as Weka Pass Railway is still in operation for tourist trains that run between Waipara and Waikari.

He is economically dominated by the limestone processing, cattle and sheep. About 84 % of residents are of European descent.

A monument in the city is reminiscent of Charles Thomas Wilson Little, in 1918 until his own death strove during the Spanish flu caused by the disease to his patients.

Near the village there are rock carvings of Māori in the Weka Pass Reserve and the Pyramid Valley, a well-known locality of fossils of the Moa.