New Zealand - Tauranga - Greerton School - Std 2 - 1958 Contributor: Marlene Fegan 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. Greerton - A major suburb of Tauranga - Greerton is named after Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Harpur Greer, commander of the British forces during the Battle of Gate Pa - It was originally a small village located several kilometers south of Tauranga but was swallowed up by urban development - Greerton has two co-educational state primary schools: Greerton Village School, with a roll of 374, and Greenpark School, with a roll of 664.