The locomotive was built in Tasmania for the Messrs Sinclair, late of Wainui-o-mata, but was never used by them.
Wainuiomata: News (Page 13)
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.
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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