New Zealand - Gisborne - Tolaga Bay Area School - Form 2 - 1979 Do you have more information about the school or the people in this photo? Please use the comment section below to share. To search for other photos from this school, please type the schools name in to our search engine. Tolaga Bay - Tolaga Bay (Maori: Uawa) is both a bay and small town on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island - The region around the bay is rugged and remote, and for many years the only access to the town was by boat. - Because the bay is shallow, a long wharf ?€? the second longest in New Zealand (600m) after the Tiwai Point wharf at Bluff (1,500m) ?€? was built in the 1920s to accommodate visiting vessels. - The last cargo ship to use the wharf loaded a cargo of maize in 1967 #tolagabay