Fire at sawmill. A fire broke out at Strand Brothers' sawmill and workshop, Lower Hutt, early yesterday morning.
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.
Mr Morton, in a report to the Council on the present pipe-line, advised that the main would be sufficient...
Water for Wellington: Building the Solomon’s Knob Reservoir at Wainuiomata — The Weekly Graphic and New Zealand Mail, 24...
A Camp Cook, Bush Sawmill. Apply Strand Brothers, Lower Hutt.3094. PHOENIX AERATED WATER COMPANY, LIMITED.SPECIALLY prepared Soda Water.
Good navvies, used to concrete work, are difficult to obtain. Such is the testimony of the contractors of the...
Yesterday's trip to the big reservoir was made under the perfect conditions of a bright sun and a soft...
Wainuiomata was responsible for Mr. F. Whitley getting a basket of fifteen fish, the largest weighing 1½ lb, all...
The 30-inch steel mains in connection with the Wainui dam contract for Wellington's new auxiliary water supply will be...
For the construction of the Solomon’s Knob Dam, it was made a condition of tender that contractors should make...
Tenders will be called for the construction of the big reservoir dam at Solomon's Knob, Wainui. It will be...
There is no Venturi meter installed at Karori, and therefore the figures cannot be given with the exactness possible...
In the early 1910s, deep within Sinclair Valley of Wainuiomata, a temporary but vibrant settlement emerged called Navvy-town.
They walked up the valley to Solomon's Knob, where a hill spur juts out, as if for the very...
The City Council, accompanied by the leading officials, made their annual visit of inspection to Wainuiomata reservoir yesterday.
Anxious time at Naenae: saving a sawmill. Many sleepless nights as fire reaches Wainui-o-Mata bush. For many days past,...
While reports have been coming to hand of devastation and suffering from bush fires where men are in a...
It is doubtful if many people in Wellington are aware that bush-felling is being earned out in the heart...
What the whole scheme means is best shown by a report drawn up by the City Engineer in November...
A slight accident occurred at the tunnel where some men were engaged repairing the Wainuiomata water supply.
A flood in the Hutt River swept away last night a portion of the pipe bridges used to carry...
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