It is intended to do away with the present water race, from which there is a tremendous leakage, and to substitute...
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.
So the telephone was set a-ringing, hangers back were rounded up, and about 10 o’clock a party of twenty-six...
Application having been made to have a trial line run for a route by way of the Wainuiomata Valley,...
The pipes ordered are to replace the rotten wooden race that conveys water from the dam to the well...
Among the proposals to get rid of the Rimutaka railway incline is a line via Wainuiomata Valley. A short...
Fires are raging on the hills all along the western side of the Hutt Valley and are also raging...
A sad case of accidental shooting happened in the Wainuiomata district yesterday morning. Herbert Palmer, aged 27, was out...
An Act Of Heroism Rewarded. As Mr Cecil Adams was standing looking over a rushing stream at Wainui-o-Mata...
Sir—I wish to draw attention to the very brave and intelligent rescue of a man from drowning last Sunday...
A whare at Wainui-o-Mata, occupied by a party of telegraph linemen, was destroyed by fire about 1 o'clock yesterday.
Sir, I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 29th ult. enquiring the cost of the repairs...
Three humorous drawings depict the Wainuiomata Water Race under the theme "Fact and Fiction".
Further correspondence from Mrs Isabella McIlvride, in reference to her claim for compensation for losses sustained.
Messrs Baird and Ward have forwarded to the City Council their reply to the last paragraph of the Waterworks...
The first, a crack in the 30in main in Coleman’s tunnel, at Wainui-o-mata, on 18th September, 1883, and which...
City Surveyor to do away with the well and race and substitute cast iron pipes at an estimated cost...
It would have been much better had the cast-iron mains been laid direct to the reservoir, thus dispensing with...
He is of opinion that the damage to the race has been the result of careless treatment and work...
The committee are pleased to be able to report that there is no grave defect in any part of...
I had little opportunity of examining the reservoir works or the interior of the race, owing to both being...
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