New Zealand - Upper Hutt - Maidstone Intermediate School - Room 25 - 1982 Photo Courtesy of Michelle Collett - Holcroft Teacher was Miss Jones, backrow Jason Bevan, Jason, ? Glen Wilson, ? ? Stewart MacDowell, ?? Middle row, James Mounter, ? ? Lisa, Kim, Melaine?, Lucy, Lisa McLean, ?,? Front row Michelle Robb, Karen, ? Cathy, Michelle Holcroft, Fiona, Neela, Joanne, Narissa Wratt Upper Hutt - An area originally known as Orongomai - The first residents of the area were Māori of the Ngai Tara iwi. - Various other iwi controlled the area in the years before 1840. - Richard Barton, who settled at Trentham in 1841 in the area now known as Trentham Memorial Park, was the first European resident. - Barton subdivided his land and set aside a large area that was turned into parkland. - James Brown settled in the area that became the Upper Hutt town in 1848. (Reference: Wikipedia)