A prospector named Cooper reports finding encouraging quartz prospects at Wainuiomata. Gold has frequently been reported.
Wainuiomata: News (Page 22)
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.
Gold is reported as having been found in encouraging prospects in the Wainuiomata, near Wellington - Wanganui Herald.
Evening Post 08 Nov 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0The City Engineer presented his reports on the alternative schemes for an extended water supply from Wai-nui-o-mata or Karori....
New Zealand Times 08 Nov 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Dams, Lower Dam, Newspaper, Pipeline, Tunnels, Water Race, Waterworks / 0The open water-race route is shown in plan and section on four sheets, and also is shown on the...
Evening Post 06 Nov 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0The Wainui-o-mata is estimated to yield 15,000,000 gallons daily. The Karori stream, which would be conveyed by a tunnel...
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand (1878)
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Prospecting, Sinclair / 0There is a reef of this stone on Sinclair's ground in the upper part of the Wainuiomata, and there...
Evening Post 25 Jun 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Mr Clark, C.E., has asked the Corporation to have his reports on the water supply printed in London and...
The body of the man recently found drowned near the mouth of the Otaki River has been found and...
Evening Post 20 Jun 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Councillor Dixon requests us to state that he signed the memorandum in reference to Mr Clark’s telegram, yesterday, by...
Evening Post 19 Jun 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0The following telegram was received this afternoon by His Worship the Mayor from Mr Clark C.E.:- “Auckland, 19 June.
Evening Post 23 May 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Sinclair, Waterworks / 0Mr Clark started again to-day for Wainui-o-mata, with some men to construct a temporary weir across the stream about...
Evening Post 20 May 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Giving an account of my proceedings in connection with a scheme for obtaining a supply of water from the...
Evening Post 18 May 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Pipeline, Sinclair, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0Mr Clark, C.E., and the City Engineer, Mr Baird, returned from Wainui-o-mata last night. The result of their expedition...
Evening Post 17 May 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0We mentioned yesterday that Mr Clark, C.E., and the City Engineer were about to proceed to Wainui-o-mata today to...
Evening Post 16 May 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Pipeline, Tunnels, Waterworks / 0For Wai-nui-o-mata to examine a stream in that locality which has been recommended as very suitable as a source...
Evening Post 06 May 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Mr Clark, C.E., and the City Engineer have decided that as the work preparatory to the publication of the...
Evening Post 30 Apr 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Mr Clark, C.E., and the City Engineer, Mr Baird, returned last evening from their expedition in search of an...
Evening Post 29 Apr 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0Required for the purpose of ascertaining the altitudes of the various possible sources of extended water supply.
Evening Post 25 Apr 1878
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Waterworks / 0To furnish the City Council with a report on the best available means of extending and augmenting the water...
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