New Zealand - Greytown - Greytown School - Room 10 - 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. Greytown School - Established in 1857 Greytown - Population 2,202 (at the 2013 Census) - A rural town in the heart of the Wairarapa region of New Zealand - It is 80 km north-east of Wellington and 25 kilometres southwest of Masterton - It was awarded the title of New Zealand's Most Beautiful Small Town 2017 - Greytown was first settled on 27 March 1854 under the Small Farms Association Settlement Scheme and was named after Governor Sir George Grey, who arranged for the land to be bought from local Māori. It became a Borough in 1878 and a ward of the South Wairarapa District Council in 1989. (Reference: Wikipedia)