New Zealand - Tauranga - Tauranga Intermediate School - Room 4 - 1962 Photo Courtesy of Marlene Fegan Back Row: John Crawford/?/?/Bruce Pauling/Gary Hill/Leigh Pettigrew/Paul Arscott/Alistair Eves/Bruce Stephens 2nd Row: Mrs Potter/?/? Elder/Dave Matuschka/?/Wayne Dingle/Dave Southey/Raymond Lovell/Quentin Leong/John Marchbank/Peter Shaw 3rd Row: Raynor Capper/ Sheryl Galvin/?/Marlene Adams/Jacqueline OConnor/Ethne Donovan/ Dorothy Pinfold/Sheena Smith/Robyn Northover/Bernice Howells Seated: Julia Turvey/?/Lynda Hazeldine/Christine Marriner/Heather Stubbs/Gaylene Rayner/ Karen Ruegg/Nola Nelson/ Noeline Decke Front: Barbara Judson/Russell Turner/ Maree Forrest Tauranga Intermediate - An Intermediate school situated in Tauranga, New Zealand - It is the largest in the country, with over 1,300 students in 45 classrooms. (Reference: Wikipedia) Tauranga - Largest urban centre and city in Bay of Plenty - 107 km east of Hamilton - Tauranga dates from the establishment of a Church Missionary Society mission at Te Papa, as it was then known, in the 1830s. - During the wars of the 1860s the government established two redoubts there. - The original mission house, The Elms, still stands. - From the 1910s, the population grew. - Growth was further fostered in the later twentieth century by horticulture (in particular kiwifruit growing) (Reference: Wikipedia) #tauranga #school