New Zealand - Taranaki - Okato College - 4L - 1989 Photo Courtesy of Caine Chamberlain 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. Okato - Ōkato is a small town in rural Taranaki - The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "place of Kato" for Ōkato - While "Kato" was probably a personal name, an alternative translation is "place of full tide/tsunami" - Ōkato has all the elements of a New Zealand rural community with sporting facilities (rugby grounds, bowling club, squash courts, tennis courts and swimming pool), Coastal Taranaki School, a police station, and a volunteer fire brigade - Ōkato was also notable as the home of Okato Cheese which was manufactured by the Okato Co-operative Dairy Company - Coastal Taranaki School is a coeducational composite (years 1-13) school with a roll of 249 as of February 2022. The school was formed in 2005 from the merger of Newall School, Okato Primary School, Okato College and Warea School