Mexico City (1968). He won the Boston Marathon in 1967. George Menzies, who in 2008 was named the greatest rugby league five-eighth New Zealand had ever produced spent his playing career at Runanga's club. James O'Brien, Labour MP for Westland 1922–25 and 1928–1947 and Minister of Transport and Marine during the First Labour Government, lived and worked in Runanga from 1906 for about ten years. Bob Semple, Minister of Public Works in the First Labour Government, was President of the Runanga Miner's Union in 1907. Paddy Webb, Minister of Mines in the First Labour Government, worked in the Runanga mine about 1906. Education Runanga School is a coeducational full primary school (years 1–8), with a roll of students as of Notes External links Runanga School website Grey District Populated places in the West Coast, New Zealand