It will be all hands to the pump, or at least the tap, when the Waikaka Hotel officially opens today. It’s taken a while to sort it, but the Waikaka community has guaranteed it will have a hotel in the town from now on. The pub, which was built in 1872, went on the market last year and community members concerned they might lose their township altogether, after losing the Waikaka Store a few years ago, put their heads together and came up with a plan to buy the local hotel.