New Zealand - Eltham - Eltham School - Room 2 - 1981 Photo Courtesy of Christine 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. Eltham - A small inland town in South Taranaki - Located 50 kilometres south of the city of New Plymouth - South Taranaki's second largest town - The population was 1941 in the 2013 Census - Eltham is known as the cradle of the Taranaki dairy industry - The first place to export butter to England - Settlement began in Eltham in the 1870s with blocks of densely forested land being taken up mainly to the north of Mountain Road.