Hotel director Sourav Sharma. Hotel director Sourav Sharma has taken on the lease with plans to reinvigorate the hotel and buy it in the future. The Hurunui Hotel has been serving guests since 1868 and is the oldest continuously licensed pub in Canterbury. "All these things are in progress, by the middle of January we should have function area open," Sharma said. "My brother Harry who owns the Southbridge Hotel, the Coalgate Tavern as well as the Springfield Hotel.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 03, 2026 08:30 UTC