Waipiata

In the early 1920s Dr Byres' facility was taken over by the Hospital Board and continued for a long period as a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients.

The sanatorium closed in 1961 and the buildings became a corrective and training centre for the Justice Department until 1979, after which the government sold the site.

Waipiata today has an hotel, a bowling green, tennis courts, a domain, a library, a large public hall and private and holiday homes.

The Central Otago District Plan Schedule 19.4 includes the Green Bridge, the War Memorial and Hamiltons Cemetery in its register of heritage buildings, places, sites and objects.

Grahame Sydney, one of New Zealand's most successful landscape painters, has long been captivated by the local landforms and views.

[1] New Zealand domestic and International visitors cycling the Otago Central Rail Trail pass through Waipiata.

Special care is required in the summer as the temperatures can rise above 40 °C, but the days can also be cold and wet, more suited to hard-core bikers than casual cyclists.

Pyroclastic rocks of most of the Waipiata vents record initial phreatomagmatic explosive activity fuelled by groundwater followed by Strombolian-style eruptions.

[2] Geological examination of the Lherzolite xenolith bearing flows from the east Otago province with regard to the crystal fractionation of upper mantle magmas, results; "The limited data support the contention that the asthenosphere below southern New Zealand and western Antarctica is essentially homogeneous over a scale of hundreds of kilometres."

Fishing The NZ Sheepbreeders Association runs the annual Rabobank New Zealand Ewe Hogget Competition.