The Wainui water has not yet reached the city owing to a burst in the pipes, about a mile...
Wainuiomata: Newspaper
Newspaper Articles about Wainuiomata
A growing collection of searchable newspaper articles about the Lower Hutt suburb of Wainuiomata. These articles span nearly 150 years of news, dating from as far back as 1866 to the present day.
Many of these older news articles, cover the story of the lower dam’s construction and flooding events over the decades. These particular articles are also available in a single document from the Wainuiomata Historical Museum Society in PDF format.
It is expected that the water will reach town from Wainui-o-mata this evening, should no accident occur in the...
Mr J. Saunders, contractor, of this city, is, we regret to hear, at present confined to his house through...
Mr J. Saunders, contractor, of this city, is, we regret to hear, at present confined to his house through...
The two-foot flume was adopted on the report of the City Engineer, and was the only one that could...
As an old miner allow me to endorse Mr Travers’s plan of a flume from the river to the...
As an old miner allow me to endorse Mr Travers’s plan of a flume from the river to the...
There have been great complaints to-day about the insufficiency of the water supply, on which subject we have received...
Is not intended to be a “reservoir,” the object being merely to raise the level of the water to...
On Thursday evening, the City Council went into committee to consider tenders for the Wainuiomata dam repairs.
Locomotive Engine for Sale, built by John Clark, of Hobart. This Locomotive was recently in use at the Te...
Will you kindly permit me a remark and a little more on Mr S. Brown’s letter addressed to you,...
The race at first was intended to be an open channel, but is now covered in to prevent debris...
It is understood that the plant is also claimed on behalf of the creditors of Messrs O’Malley and Pepperill.
An engineering correspondent has favoured us with the following interesting notes on a recent private visit of inspection he...
The trustees in the estate of Messrs J. and D. Sinclair wrote, offering to sell the Council a locomotive...
We should say that, in the deep water filling, the little engine, with its half dozen trucks, will be...
The heavy and long-continued storm of rain from Sunday night till Tuesday noon caused another disastrous flood at Wainuiomata.
The official visit of the City Councillors to the scene of the Wainui-o-mata disaster took place yesterday, instead of...
A special meeting of the City Council was held yesterday afternoon in reference to the damage to the Wainui...
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