Aviation pictures - A new airport
From Jerripedia

The new States Airport in 1937, and below, the grass surfaces used as the first landing strips, with St Peter's Barracks in the foreground. It can be seen in the picture below that the main landing strip in use when the airport opened was across the picture from left (north) to right (south) and right to left, depending on wind direction. As the entire surface was grass, the direction of landings and take-offs could be adjusted to cope with crosswinds. Today's single runway is aligned approximately due east and west. When the airport first opened, the land behind and to the left of the terminal building, on which the eastern end of the main runway would be built, and which is today all within the Airport boundary, was still in private ownership as cultivated fields
Planning
This plan shows the airport, much as it was constructed. However, initially the west-east runway shown on the plan only extended as far as the terminal building and the triangular section on the right of the plan, behind the buildings, was not acquired from the farmers who owned it and continued to grow crops there.