Waiau Hotel Tuatapere

Tourists, Back Packers or Anyone at all - Accommodation and Meals at reasonable Prices
Main St, Tuatapere, Southland, New Zealand - Ph: 03 2266 409 - Fax: 03 2266 354 - email

Recommended by shearingworld.com

"Tuatapere" the Town, is not only the Sausage Capital of New Zealand, it is close to beaches with plentiful supplies of Paua, Kina, Toheroas, Greenlip Mussel, Yellow Belly Flounder, with deer and pig in the bush covered hills close to town.
World Ewe Shearing records have been closely associated with Tuatapere and the Waiau Hotel for many years.

Brunel Peaks Station, up the Blackmount Valley is where many records have been set.
Neil St George 605, David Fagan 656 & 702, and Edsel Forde 664, did their 9 hour ewe records there. 

Then down the road a few kilometers at 

Wairaki Station, is where Dion Morrell 716,
Darin Forde 688 & 720 and Wayne Ingram 647 did their 9 hour ewe record contribution as well as Darin Forde's 6 stand team added 4188 lambs to the record books.

The Waiau Hotel have not only sponsored and supported eight successful World Ewe records, they have been actively involved in the promotion, the fundraising, the functions prior, accommodation before and the after functions.
Without their help, these 8 World records they may not have all been successful.

The Waiau Hotel have the best meals and selection of drinks to be found at any similar establishment in Southland.  The Bar

Call in and experience their hospitality, which is excellent, and accommodation is from basic to family oriented, with a very homely atmosphere. There are excellent bush walks within close proximity, which are some of the best in New Zealand with, beaches and rugged hills and the mountains of  Fiordland in the distance
Call in and be treated to some great Southland hospitality Do It! - Book Ahead - Call Today 

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