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Kakatahi

Kākātahi is a New Zealand town located 50 kilometres (31 mi) from Whanganui, on State Highway 4 to Raetihi.

Kakatahi
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Kākātahi is a New Zealand town located 50 kilometres (31 mi) from Whanganui, on State Highway 4 to Raetihi. The once bustling roadworkers' camp is now closed and the introduction of private contractors has seen the community dwindle, with local families contributing to a school roll of only about a dozen in 2007.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Kakatahi

Airports
Wellington (WLG), 191 km · Auckland (AKL), 298 km
  • Wellington → Kakatahi
    187 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · NZ$35–46
  • Auckland → Kakatahi
    316 km · quickest by road, 6h 19m · NZ$55–75
  • Christchurch → Kakatahi
    486 km · quickest by road, 14h 32m · NZ$95–130
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kakatahi

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kakatahi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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