Saint Marys Bay, New Zealand the Catholic St Paul's College for boys and St Mary's College for girls. 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
Island Bay (New Zealand electorate) Island Bay (New Zealand electorate) Island Bay is a former New Zealand electorate, centred on Island Bay in the southern suburbs of Wellington. The 1941 New Zealand census had been postponed due to World War II, so the 1946 electoral redistribution had to take ten years of population growth and movements into account. The North Island gained a further two electorates from the South Island due to faster population growth. The abolition of the country quota through the "Electoral Amendment Act, 1945" reduced the number and increased the size of rural electorates. None of the existing electorates remained unchanged, 27