The Wainui-o-mata Waterworks are all but completed. The whole of the pipes have been laid in position, and Mr...
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 06 Sep 1883
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Sinclair / 0Mr Damant’s valuation of the property lately held by Messrs J. and D. Sinclair was approved and accepted, and...
Evening Post 31 Aug 1883
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Pipeline, Sinclair, Waterworks / 0I had permitted the sum of £240 to be paid over to the Messrs Sinclair on receipt of a...
Allow me, through the medium of your valuable paper, to call attention to the most daring instance of wanton...
Report of Surveys of New Zealand for 1882-1883
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0The usual fortnightly meeting of the City Council took place last night, and was attended by the Mayor (Mr...
Evening Post 27 Apr 1883
David Johnson / / / History, News, Long Tunnel, Newspaper, Pipeline, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0The usual fortnightly meeting of the City Council took place last night, and was attended by the Mayor (Mr...
Evening Post 24 Apr 1883
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Sinclair, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0The committee beg to report… That one half the penalties incurred in Mr D. Sinclair’s contract for tunnel at...
Evening Post 19 Apr 1883
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0Tenders will be received at the office of the undersigned, up to 4 p.m. of Thursday, the 26th instant,...
Evening Post 13 Apr 1883
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0We learn that Mr G. H. Bayliss, contractor for a portion of the Wainui-o-mata Waterworks, met with rather a...
Evening Post 11 Apr 1883
David Johnson / / / History, News, Long Tunnel, Newspaper, Pipeline, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0That the contract for formation, &c., of the long tunnel, Wainui-o-mata, is about completed, and tenders called for laying...
Evening Post 28 Mar 1883
David Johnson / / / History, News, Long Tunnel, Newspaper, Oakes, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0That Mr A. E. Russell has declined the offer of the Council relative to the proposed purchase of the...
Evening Post 20 Mar 1883
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Sinclair, Waterworks / 0The tender of Messrs G. H. Bayliss & Co. has been accepted by the City Council for the construction...
Evening Post 02 Mar 1883
David Johnson / / / History, News, Land, Newspaper, Sinclair, Tramways, Water Race, Waterworks / 0A claim for compensation on account of the strip of land taken for the water-race, under proclamation of 17th...
Evening Post 28 Feb 1883
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0In reference to the piercing of the Wainui-o-mata tunnel, a correspondent, signing himself “Fair Play,” sends us a letter,
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