New Zealand - Tauranga Intermediate School class photo - 1978 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) -------------------- Image source: Tauranga City Libraries Image 14-0182 Copyright may apply https://paekoroki.tauranga.govt.nz/nodes/view/28883