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
Bay City Municipal Airport Bay City Municipal Airport Bay City Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) east of the central business district of Bay City, in Matagorda County, Texas, United States. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned BYY by the FAA and BBC by the IATA. Bay City Municipal Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 45 feet (14 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with a 5,107 by 75 ft (1,557 x 23 m) asphalt surface.