Among the proposals to get rid of the Rimutaka railway incline is a line via Wainuiomata Valley. A short...
Wainuiomata: News
Wainuiomata news spanning from today back to the 1860s, covering topics as wide ranging as regional parks, reserves, tracks, waterworks, industry, and notable people.
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...
Mr Higginson, C.E., who was selected by the committee of the Wellington City Council to inspect the Wainui-o-mata waterwork.
Substituting a well—only intermittently full—and a concrete race for continuous iron mains has already been adverted to.
The question whether the concrete race and well were not in themselves, as implied by Mr Marchant, a grave...
The great fire has been the main topic of conversation here since its occurrence, or rather fire and water...
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