The city councillors paid an official visit to the Wainuiomata works yesterday and closely examined the race in which...
Month: February, 1887
New Zealand Times 28 Feb 1887
David Johnson / / / History, News, Lower Dam, Newspaper, Water Race, Waterworks / 0The anticipated arrival of the Wigtonshire with another consignment from Glasgow will prevent the necessity of even the slightest...
Evening Post 25 Feb 1887
David Johnson / / / History, News, Lower Dam, Newspaper, Pipeline, Water Race, Waterworks / 0Whoever informed our representative that the 25-feet crack in the water-race at Wainui- o-mata was known to the Corporation, had misled...
Evening Post 25 Feb 1887
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Oakes, Water Race, Waterworks / 0A crack existed a long time back, and it was also known that the work was defective when the...
New Zealand Times 25 Feb 1887
David Johnson / / / History, News, Dams, Lower Dam, Newspaper, Water Race, Waterworks / 0As far as they could gather the race had been leaking for some time—he would say for about six...
New Zealand Times 23 Feb 1887
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Water Race, Waterworks / 0It is said that over millions of gallons leave the Wainui reservoir daily for distribution in Wellington, or more...
Evening Post 11 Feb 1887
David Johnson / / / History, News, Dams, Lower Dam, Newspaper, Pipeline, Water Race, Waterworks / 0A crack existed a long time back, and it was also known that the work was defective when the...
I went through the race from one end to the other and find that the race for about ⅞ths...
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