New Zealand - Waipukurau - Waipukurau High School - 1953 Photo Courtesy of Alan Loye 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. Waipukurau - The largest town in the Central Hawke's Bay District - Located on the banks of the Tukituki River - 7 kilometres south of Waipawa and 50 kilometres southwest of Hastings - Central Hawkes Bay, where the town is located was settled by Te Aitanga a Whatonga, the descendants of Whatonga, grandson of Toi Kairakau. - In December 1850 Donald McLean and his party of Land Commissioners meet with the Central Hawkes Bay tribes to discuss purchasing a large block of land for European settlement. (Reference: Wikipedia) #waikatoother #school