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
Stanley Bay, New Zealand Stanley Bay, New Zealand Stanley Bay on the North Shore, New Zealand is a small suburb near Devonport. It is mostly residential; the surrounding towns and shops are only a walk away. The Devonport Naval Base lies to the east of the bay on the south side of the Stanley Bay peninsula and is connected to storage facilities on the north side at Ngataringa Bay by a tunnel. The population was 2,187 in the 2006 census, an increase of 24 from 2001. The area is named after Owen Stanley, Captain of H.M.S. "Britomart", who conducted a survey of the Waitematā