page_title: Days Bay
section_title: Day's Bay ferry vessels
hierarchical_section_title: Days Bay / Day's Bay ferry vessels
caption_attribution_description: Photographer: William Hall Raine (1892-1955)[1] Days Bay, Eastbourne, showing people on the beach, ferry boats and the wharf, 1920s Reference number: 1/2-100634-G Original negative Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library
context_page_description: Days Bay is a residential area in Lower Hutt in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is walled on three sides by steep bush-clad slopes. Most of its level land is occupied by Williams Park and an independent boys' primary school, originally a part of Williams Park.
  Wellington shipowner, J H Williams, bought land in Days Bay near the end of the 19th century to create custom for his smaller vessels, building a wharf and turning the bay into a sports and resort development for day-trippers and holiday-makers. Williams sold his interest in 1905 and the new owners split off building sites on unneeded land. The Eastbourne Borough Council bought the ferries in 1913 and the accommodation, Days Bay House, was sold to Wellington's Croydon School. The following year the Wellington City Council with central government support and public subscription bought the resort for the benefit of the public though without its accommodation and, in view of the large cash contribution by the founder's mother, named it Williams Park.
caption: Cobar, Duchess and a third ferry
  Days Bay, 1920s
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