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The most consistent way to get to Christchurch or North is to walk (or take a local bus $4) up Pine Hill to where the highway starts. There is space to pull over, and cars are travelling slowly after coming up the hill. It is very easy from here.
The first sensible place to get a ride to is Waikouaiti. DO NOT accept rides to Waitati, Blue skin bay, Doctors point, Karitane, or Warrington. These places are disasters that will leave you standing in a place with cars zooming by but nowhere to stop!
From there the next sensible place is Palmerston, then Hampden. If you get dropped at the Moeraki Boulders it hard to get a lift there but it is possible to walk North along the main road to a good hitching spot at Hampden it is about 20 minutes walk if I remember right.