New Zealand - Marlborough - Rai Valley Area School - Std 1 & 2 - 1985 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. Rai Valley - Rai Valley is a rural settlement in Marlborough - The area may have been named for the Rangitāne chief, Rai kau moana - The Valley was one of the last areas explored by Europeans in northern Marlborough. John Tinline discovered it while looking for a route to Nelson in January 1850 - The Rai Valley was densely forested in the 19th century. A township grew up at Carluke, just to the west of Rai Valley locality, around a sawmill built by William Brownlee in 1907