Photo shows the old caretakers house in the Orongorongo water catchment in a state of disrepair.
The caretaker’s house in the Orongorongo Valley was built early in the twentieth century to support Wellington’s water supply operations and was still standing in the early 1970s, as confirmed by archive files from 1964–1973 and a 1971 photograph. By 2007 it had been removed, with Greater Wellington records mentioning only the old house site. Given the automation and centralisation of water operations around the commissioning of the Wainuiomata Water Treatment Plant in 1993, the house was most likely dismantled between the late 1970s and early 1990s.
