New Zealand - New Plymouth - Devon Intermediate - Room 1 - 1996 Click the link above to view all of this schools photos 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. Devon Intermediate - Devon Intermediate School Was Opened In February 1958 - The site chosen for the school has an interesting history dating back to pre-European times when it was part of the traditional path used by the Maori to go to Ngamotu. In 1840 a cottage was built here by a pioneer settler who drew the land in a ballot. Several more houses were built on the land before it became a nursery in 1882. After this business closed in 1914 the land gradually reverted to bush, scrub and swamp.