New Zealand - Northland - Kerikeri High School - Form 2E - 1992 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. Kerikeri - The largest town in Northland - The village was established by New Zealand's pioneering missionaries, who called it Gloucester Town - Sometimes called the Cradle of the Nation - The site of the first permanent mission station in the country - Has some of the most historic buildings in the country - Kerikeri was the first place in New Zealand where grape vines were planted - New Zealand's first commercial plantings of passionfruit were established in 1927 - In 1932 the country's first avocados were planted Reference; Wikipedia