The supervising engineer, mention Easter as the outside date, by which everything will be ready so far as 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.
Evening Post 12 Jan 1923
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0At Wainui-o-mata both reservoirs are practically full, but they are no longer overflowing, and the ground in the catchment...
Evening Post 04 Nov 1922
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Authority has been given by the City Council for the purchase of 153½ acres of land at Wainui-o-mata for...
The party is now being moved to complete the survey of the Wainuiomata route, work on which was suspended...
Otago Witness 06 Jun 1922
David Johnson / / / History, News, Camps, Newspaper, Orongorongo Camp, Orongorongo Tunnel, Semple’s Camp, Waterworks / 0Three camps are installed here. The surveyors, numbering three men; the council camp of 21 workers doing the outside...
Dominion 09 Mar 1922
David Johnson / / / History, News, Dams, Generators, Little Tunnel, Newspaper, Orongorongo Pipeline, Orongorongo Tunnel, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0Boring operations have been commenced and preparations are being made for the establishment of a permanent camp for the...
Dominion 08 Oct 1921
David Johnson / / / History, News, Generators, Newspaper, Orongorongo Tunnel, Pipeline, Semple’s Camp, Waterworks / 0The gang has now returned to the main camp at the tunnel mouth on the Wainui side of the...
Evening Post 30 Jun 1921
David Johnson / / / History, News, Generators, Newspaper, Orongorongo Tunnel, Semple’s Camp, Waterworks / 0At the top of a gully two miles from the Morton Dam at Wainui-o-mata, eight huts, besides a kitchen...
New Zealand Times 30 Jun 1921
David Johnson / / / History, News, Bridle Track, Generators, Newspaper, Orongorongo Camp, Orongorongo Pipeline, Orongorongo Tunnel, Semple’s Camp, Waterworks / 0The progress being made with the tunnel boring contract at Wainui-o-mata, by means of which the city's water supply...
Dominion 30 Jun 1921
David Johnson / / / History, News, Dams, Generators, Little Tunnel, Morton Dam, Newspaper, Orongorongo Pipeline, Orongorongo Tunnel, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0(Mr. W. H. Morton), the town clerk (Mr. J. R. Palmer), and Press representatives, visited the works on the...
Dominion 10 Mar 1921
David Johnson / / / History, News, Dams, Generators, Morton Dam, Newspaper, Orongorongo Tunnel, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0The tunnel, which is being constructed on the co-operative system by a gang of eight men under Mr. Robert...
New Zealand Times 10 Mar 1921
David Johnson / / / History, News, Generators, Newspaper, Orongorongo Tunnel, Semple’s Camp, Waterworks / 0The progress being made with the tunnel boring contract at Wainui-o-mata, by means of which the city's water supply...
Dominion 08 Sep 1919
David Johnson / / / History, News, Dams, Newspaper, Orongorongo Catchment, Railway, Waterworks / 0What I suggest to the City Council is this: that Mr Morton does not put in the proposed third...
Evening Post 29 Aug 1919
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Railway, Waterworks / 0Any railway line in connection with any proposed deviation of the Wairarapa line should not pass over the council...
Evening Post 24 Aug 1919
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Four men were charged at the Lower Hutt Court with taking indigenous birds, to wit, 27 pigeons and 1...
Evening Post 10 May 1919
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Orongorongo Catchment, Waterworks / 0Briefly, Mr. Phillips' old proposal was first to throw the Orongorongo supply into the Wainui Reservoir (which is about...
Evening Post 20 Jan 1919
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0This afternoon members of the French Mission are the guests of the Mayor and the City Council on a...
Evening Post 12 Jun 1918
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0With the acquisition of another 25 acres of land, the securing of the whole of the Wainui-o-mata watershed will...
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