New Zealand - Napier - Taradale High School - 4EL - 1996 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. Taradale High School - Taradale High School (THS), is a co-educational secondary school situated in the town of Taradale in Hawkes Bay - The school was originally constructed to the Nelson Two-Storey standard plan, like most New Zealand secondary schools built in the 1960s - The school opened on 3 February 1970, although some of the buildings were not yet complete or painted, and the playing fields were bare earth with stones and rocks - The opening ceremony was not held until 17 July 1970, and the Minister of Education, Brian Talboys, was unable to attend and a replacement speaker was hastily organised. Of the original ten staff members, four left during the first year - Despite these problems, the school presented a concert involving every class at the end of the second term, and a basketball marathon set an endurance record for the Guinness Book of Records. The school magazine, then called Teamhar Leabhar (Gaelic for The Book of Tara), published its first issue