On 20th November 1950, two-month-old Mervyn Lee, TEAL's youngest passenger (to that date) on the trans-Tasman flying-boat services, is shown with his mother and a colour picture of ZK-AML “
Aotearoa II” that was presented to him.
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NZ Prime Minister Sidney Holland and Mrs Holland departing from Evans Bay on 28th December 1950 bound for Rose Bay, Sydney then onwards by connecting Qantas Kangaroo Route flight to London.
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ZK-AMM “
Ararangi” taxis for takeoff then is raced by Len Southward's speedboat “
Redhead” across Evans Bay on 17th January 1951.
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Evans Bay on 3rd February 1951 with a TEAL Solent moored out in the bay. The photographs were taken from above the Patent Slip.
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A truck dumps a load of soil into the water at Greta Point in Evans Bay at the beginning of the reclaimation for TEAL's flying-boat base on 6th April 1951.
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Three photographs taken on the 7th & 21st April, and on 6th May 1951 showing the reclaimation in progress for TEAL's Evans Bay terminal.
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Members of the All Blacks team being transported by launch out to ZK-AML “
Aotearoa II” on 8th June 1951, heading off for a rugby tour to Australia.
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Work under way on the reclaimation for TEAL's Evans Bay flying-boat base on 13th June 1951.
