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Article from the New Zealand Herald
27 August 2010: As Auckland merges to create a supercity, the Herald looks back at how Auckland has changed over the years.

Brief history of Auckland International Airport.

In 1958, to the consternation of the Queen City, it discovered a DC7C bringing the Queen Mother to New Zealand would not be able to land fully loaded at Whenuapai.

Her Majesty would have to transfer to a Bristol Britannia at Nadi. Fiji had a jet-age airport, as did Christchurch - Auckland did not.

Within days a moribund committee set up by the City Council and the Chamber of Commerce was revived to press the Government, and Auckland's myriad small boroughs, for action at last.