Hakataramea
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Hakataramea is a rural village located in the southern Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It is in the Waitaki District and sits on the north bank of the Waitaki River; it is here that the Hakataramea River joins the Waitaki River. Located in the village is a small square obelisk that serves as a war memorial to eight soldiers who died in the First World War.
A bridge links Hakataramea with Kurow, a town on the opposite side of the Waitaki River in North Otago. This bridge used to be a combined road/rail bridge but now only carries State Highway 82. The construction of this bridge and arrival of the railway in 1881 encouraged growth in Hakataramea, which had only recently been settled. The railway was a branch line that left the Main South Line in Pukeuri and was known as the Kurow Branch but was sometimes dubbed the Hakataramea Branch. Plans existed to extend it further beyond Hakataramea but they never came to fruition and the 1.8km of trackage from Kurow to Hakataramea was closed on 14 July 1930.
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