The locomotive was built in Tasmania for the Messrs Sinclair, late of Wainui-o-mata, but was never used by them.
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.
New Zealand Mail 21 Nov 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Dams, Newspaper, Water Race, Waterworks / 0The Wainui waterworks, he said, had been a positive failure, and he pointed out that in this matter he...
New Zealand Times 20 Jun 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Sinclair, Waterworks / 0Temporary box fluming maintained water flow during construction of the main dam and apron wall, ensuring a reliable supply...
Report of the Surveys of New Zealand for the years 1883-1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Mr J. D. Climie succeeded in covering and mapping nearly a quarter of a million of acres, completing our...
Evening Post 11 Jun 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0A singular mishap befell a member of the Fire Brigade named White during the progress of the trial of...
Evening Post 04 Jun 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Long Tunnel, Newspaper, Pipeline, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0Owing to a burst having occurred in one of the water-pipes in the long tunnel in connection with the...
Evening Post 14 May 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Pipeline, Waterworks / 0Owing to one or two more “bursts” in the pipes along the Hutt-road, the Wainui water has again had...
Evening Post 13 May 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Pipeline, Waterworks / 0The water is very thick and muddy at present, but will have run itself clean in the course of...
Evening Post 12 May 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Pipeline, Waterworks / 0The Wainui water has not yet reached the city owing to a burst in the pipes, about a mile...
Evening Post 10 May 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0It is expected that the water will reach town from Wainui-o-mata this evening, should no accident occur in the...
Evening Post 09 May 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Mr J. Saunders, contractor, of this city, is, we regret to hear, at present confined to his house through...
Evening Post 08 May 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Mr J. Saunders, contractor, of this city, is, we regret to hear, at present confined to his house through...
Evening Post 29 Apr 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0The two-foot flume was adopted on the report of the City Engineer, and was the only one that could...
Evening Post 25 Apr 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0As an old miner allow me to endorse Mr Travers’s plan of a flume from the river to the...
Evening Post 24 Apr 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0As an old miner allow me to endorse Mr Travers’s plan of a flume from the river to the...
Evening Post 02 Apr 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Dams, Lower Dam, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0There have been great complaints to-day about the insufficiency of the water supply, on which subject we have received...
Evening Post 01 Apr 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Pipeline, Waterworks / 0Is not intended to be a “reservoir,” the object being merely to raise the level of the water to...
New Zealand Times 15 Mar 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Floods, Lower Dam, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0On Thursday evening, the City Council went into committee to consider tenders for the Wainuiomata dam repairs.
Evening Post 21 Feb 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Will you kindly permit me a remark and a little more on Mr S. Brown’s letter addressed to you,...
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