4026 - Timaru, New Zealand

A great photo of main street Timaru, looks like around Christmas time. It's a city of about 30 000 people. European settlement here began with a whaling station in 1839. An artificial port was created in 1877 to act as a breakwater. Timaru is an agricultural service town and a port. It is one of the major cargo ports on the South Island. Processing, packing, and distributing meat, dairy, and other agricultural produce is a large part of the economy.