New Zealand - Greytown - Kuranui College - Form 5TL - 1981 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. Kuranui College - The college opened in February 1960 to replace the three district high schools in Greytown, Featherston, and Martinborough - The name Kuranui in the Māori language means "'large school" - Like many secondary schools in New Zealand of the era, Kuranui was built to the New Zealand standard school buildings, based on two-storey H-shaped "Nelson blocks", of which three were built at Kuranui and only one of them which still stands today E Block - The school has four houses, which form classes are assigned to, which are named after important places or features of in the Wairarapa and each is represented by a native bird and tree. They are Ruamahanga with the Pukeko and Hinau, Aorangi with the Tui and kowhai, Tararua The Keruru, and Rata and Wairarapa with the Toroa and Ngaio