With reference to the recent complaints as to the sudden stoppage of the Wainui-o-mata water supply, the City Surveyor...
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.
The daily flow to be 4,320,000 gallons; practically speaking, the whole of this quantity passes through the concrete race.
The water-supply of this city is obtained from two sources – one from the Kaiwarawara Creek and the other...
Securing a block of 2000 acres of land above the reservoir, so as to prevent the destruction of the...
The locomotive was built in Tasmania for the Messrs Sinclair, late of Wainui-o-mata, but was never used by them.
The Wainui waterworks, he said, had been a positive failure, and he pointed out that in this matter he...
Temporary box fluming maintained water flow during construction of the main dam and apron wall, ensuring a reliable supply...
Mr J. D. Climie succeeded in covering and mapping nearly a quarter of a million of acres, completing our...
A singular mishap befell a member of the Fire Brigade named White during the progress of the trial of...
Owing to a burst having occurred in one of the water-pipes in the long tunnel in connection with the...
Owing to one or two more “bursts” in the pipes along the Hutt-road, the Wainui water has again had...
The water is very thick and muddy at present, but will have run itself clean in the course of...
The Wainui water has not yet reached the city owing to a burst in the pipes, about a mile...
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...
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