The gang has now returned to the main camp at the tunnel mouth on the Wainui side of the...
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.
At the top of a gully two miles from the Morton Dam at Wainui-o-mata, eight huts, besides a kitchen...
The progress being made with the tunnel boring contract at Wainui-o-mata, by means of which the city's water supply...
(Mr. W. H. Morton), the town clerk (Mr. J. R. Palmer), and Press representatives, visited the works on the...
The tunnel, which is being constructed on the co-operative system by a gang of eight men under Mr. Robert...
The progress being made with the tunnel boring contract at Wainui-o-mata, by means of which the city's water supply...
The sawmill which the late Mr Sinclair ran at Wainui o Mata was one of the first in the...
What I suggest to the City Council is this: that Mr Morton does not put in the proposed third...
Any railway line in connection with any proposed deviation of the Wairarapa line should not pass over the council...
Four men were charged at the Lower Hutt Court with taking indigenous birds, to wit, 27 pigeons and 1...
Briefly, Mr. Phillips' old proposal was first to throw the Orongorongo supply into the Wainui Reservoir (which is about...
This afternoon members of the French Mission are the guests of the Mayor and the City Council on a...
With the acquisition of another 25 acres of land, the securing of the whole of the Wainui-o-mata watershed will...
The Acclimatisation Society proceeded against Henry Gilbert Black and John Charles Dick today for breaches of the Animals Protection...
An offer, in terms of the value submitted by the City Valuer, is to be made for the settlement...
An exchange of land in the Wainui-o-mata water catchment area is to be effected by the City Council in...
The proposal was that the water from the intake at Orongorongo should flow by direct main into the lower...
To the proposed demolition of the insanitary buildings at Wainui-o-mata, where eight cases of diphtheria were reported last year.
"That, in reference to the proposed demolition of the insanitary buildings at Wainui-o-mata, where eight cases of diphtheria were...
The last batch of concrete was placed on the crest of the Solomon's Knob dam yesterday. The contractors are...
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