On 19th January 1940, TEAL's Short S.30 Empire Boat ZK-AMA “
Aotearoa” alights on Evans Bay bringing dignitaries to visit the Centennial Exhibition — the exhibition site can be seen in the second photograph.
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On 28th February 1946, Wellington received a visit from BOAC's Short S.25 Hythe-class flying-boat (civil Sunderland) G-AGJL “
Hobart” conveying the British Minister for Civil Aviation, Lord Winster (Reginald Fletcher), to a meeting of the South Pacific Air Transport Council. The Sunderland flying-boat was moored in the bay, then towed in to a floating jetty at the Evans Bay wharves, allowing the minister and his official party to disembark.
