The water is very thick and muddy at present, but will have run itself clean in the course of...
Wainuiomata: News
Wainuiomata news spanning from today back to the 1860s provides a comprehensive record of the valley’s history, tracing its journey from early settlement to its modern identity.
This news archive covers a wide range of topics including stories around the people who shaped Wainuiomata, from early pioneers and engineering workers, to community leaders.
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,...
The race at first was intended to be an open channel, but is now covered in to prevent debris...
Evening Post 16 Feb 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Dams, Lower Dam, Newspaper, Sinclair, Water Race, Waterworks / 0An engineering correspondent has favoured us with the following interesting notes on a recent private visit of inspection he...
Evening Post 07 Feb 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Tramways / 0We should say that, in the deep water filling, the little engine, with its half dozen trucks, will be...
New Zealand Times 01 Feb 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Floods, Lower Dam, Newspaper, Water Race, Waterworks / 0The heavy and long-continued storm of rain from Sunday night till Tuesday noon caused another disastrous flood at Wainuiomata.
Evening Post 26 Jan 1884
David Johnson / / / History, News, Dams, Floods, Lower Dam, Newspaper, Sinclair, Waterworks / 0The official visit of the City Councillors to the scene of the Wainui-o-mata disaster took place yesterday, instead of...
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