New Zealand - Whanganui - Wanganui Intermediate School - 1945 Photo Courtesy of Josephine Metcalfe 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. Whanganui - A city on the west coast of the North Island - Part of the Manawatū-Whanganui regio - The ancestral home of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi and other Whanganui Māori tribes - The New Zealand Company began to settle the area in 1840 - Much of Whanganui's economy relates directly to the prosperous farming hinterland - Officially designated a city until an administrative reorganisation in 1989 Reference: Wikipedia