The contractors for the Te Aro reclamation have started work with the locomotive conveying material over the trestle railway to the lower end of Cuba-street. The little engine, “Pio Pio,” formerly belonging to Messrs Sinclair, of Wainui-o-mata, is the one used. The material is brought from the cliffs in the neighbourhood of Clyde Quay.
Tags: Logging Newspaper TramwaysDevelopment of houses took place in the 1960s in Sunny Grove. However, this photo from 1958 shows at...
Maintenance Road, an unsealed road originally provided access to the old pipeline that once distributed water from the dam.
For the construction of the Solomon’s Knob Dam, it was made a condition of tender that contractors should make...
Tararua s.s., 524 tons, Pearce, from Melbourne via Nelson. Imports in the Tararua… 1 engine, 1 boiler, 4 packages,...
The City Engineer has now been instructed to make arrangements for having it lined at his discretion, in terms...
Norman Willis, a land developer and owner, established a subdivision in Homedale, Wainuiomata in the late 1950s – 1960s.
In a significant win for conservation, the kiwi population has expanded from Wainuiomata to Whitemans Valley in Upper Hutt....
Along a short section of Maintenance Road, an old track parallel to Reservoir Road, there is an earth bridge....
Located in Wainuiomata Primary School, it is open 2pm-4pm every Sunday. Learn more →.
