Mr Clark started again to-day for Wainui-o-mata, with some men to construct a temporary weir across the stream about...
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.
Evening Post 20 May 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Giving an account of my proceedings in connection with a scheme for obtaining a supply of water from the...
Evening Post 18 May 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Pipeline, Sinclair, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0Mr Clark, C.E., and the City Engineer, Mr Baird, returned from Wainui-o-mata last night. The result of their expedition...
Evening Post 17 May 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0We mentioned yesterday that Mr Clark, C.E., and the City Engineer were about to proceed to Wainui-o-mata today to...
Evening Post 16 May 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Pipeline, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0For Wai-nui-o-mata to examine a stream in that locality which has been recommended as very suitable as a source...
Evening Post 06 May 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Mr Clark, C.E., and the City Engineer have decided that as the work preparatory to the publication of the...
Evening Post 30 Apr 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Mr Clark, C.E., and the City Engineer, Mr Baird, returned last evening from their expedition in search of an...
Evening Post 29 Apr 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Required for the purpose of ascertaining the altitudes of the various possible sources of extended water supply.
Evening Post 25 Apr 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0To furnish the City Council with a report on the best available means of extending and augmenting the water...
New Zealand Times 24 Apr 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Land, Newspaper / 0Sir William Fitzherbert to sell by public auction, several valuable allotments of land on the Wainuiomata Estate.
Evening Post 20 Apr 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0The Finance Committee made an interim report. After advising that arrears of rates, not recoverable, amounting to £306, be...
Evening Post 18 Apr 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Sinclair / 0Mr Duncan Sinclair, of the firm of J. & D. Sinclair, of Wainuiomata, stated that the cheque was not...
Finding the stream on the Wainui-o-mata side, had proceeded with the investigation there. There is no indication of an...
It is believed that alluvial gold has been discovered in a creek at Wainuiomata, about ten miles from Wellington.
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