New Zealand - Waipukurau - Central Hawkes Bay College - Form 4SH - 1982 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. Central Hawkes Bay College - The school was established in 1959 from Waipawa and Waipukurau District High Schools Waipukurau - The largest town in the Central Hawke's Bay District - Located on the banks of the Tukituki River - 7 kilometres south of Waipawa and 50 kilometres southwest of Hastings - Central Hawkes Bay, where the town is located was settled by Te Aitanga a Whatonga, the descendants of Whatonga, grandson of Toi Kairakau. - In December 1850 Donald McLean and his party of Land Commissioners meet with the Central Hawkes Bay tribes to discuss purchasing a large block of land for European settlement. (Reference: Wikipedia)