Saint Marys Bay, New Zealand Saint Marys Bay, New Zealand Saint Marys Bay is an inner suburb of Auckland City, New Zealand. mid-1840s George Scott farms the land where Three Lamps is now. 1853 For £1100 Catholic Bishop Pompallier purchases in the area between Three Lamps and the shoreline from James O’Neill, christening it Mount Saint Mary. 1854 O’Neill’s house becomes St. Anne’s School for Maori Girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. Responding to a Maori request for holy women to teach the children, the sisters of Mercy arrived in Auckland from Ireland in 1850 already fluent in the Maori language. Their first school
Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay (New Zealand electorate) Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay (New Zealand electorate) Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay is a former parliamentary electorate in the Wellington region of New Zealand, from 1853 to 1859, when it was extended into previously unincorporated territories, split in two and replaced by with its southern portion being the newly created electorate. It is the first general electorate to have been abolished in New Zealand. The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, passed by the British government, allowed New Zealand to establish a representative government. The initial 24 New Zealand electorates were defined by Governor George Grey in March 1853. Wairarapa and Hawke's