Oranga Tamariki holds some records about Bollard Girls Home from 1975-1990. Oranga Tamariki should also hold personal records on young people who stayed at Bollard House and whom the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) had involvement with.
Gender: girls
Age group: 10-16 years
Capacity:
Controlling organisation: Child Welfare Division Education Department 1972, Department of Social Welfare 1972-1989; State control
Survivor account to the Royal Commission from Neta Kerepeti on 22 April 2021 (includes account of abuse at Bollard Girls Home)
Survivor account to the Royal Commission from Maryann Rangi on 13 April 2021 (includes account of abuse at Bollard Girls Home)
Survivor account to the Royal Commission from Loretta Ryder on 30 March 2021 (includes account of abuse at Bollard Girls Home)
Find out how to request Archives New Zealand records.
Archives NZ also holds some records about Bollard Girls Home, with Oranga Tamariki as the controlling agency for any restricted records.
Held in Auckland:
4328 Bollard Special Needs Unit Register of Admission and Discharge 1983-1986
4329 Bollard Secure / Special Needs Unit Register / Day Books 1972-1986
4333 Bollard Daily Logs (Secure) 1986-1988
4334 Bollard Hostel Girls' Background 1985
4335 Bollard Girls Home Admission Unit Diaries 1981-1985
4336 Bollard Girls Home Daily Log Books 1988-1989
4337 Bollard Girls Home Daily Log (House) 1986-1988
4338 Bollard Girls Home Visitors Book 1979-1983
4339 Bollard Girls Home Reception Unit Diary 1982
4340 Bollard Girls Home Casework Diaries 1986-1988
4342 Bollard Girls Home Secure Care Register 1989
4343 Bollard Girls Home Registers of Admission and Discharge 1972-1989
4344 Bollard Girls Home Diaries 1974-1989
4345 Bollard Girls Home Night Staff Diaries 1971-1988
4322 Bollard GIrls Home Discharge Registers 1977-1982
4323 Bollard Girls Home Medical Diaries 1976-1989
10049 Bollard Girls Home unregistered records 1972-1991
4324 Bollard Girls Home School admission registers 1968-1987
4327 Bollard Girls Home Institutional Diaries 1974-1988
10048 Bollard Girls Home multiple number subject files 1984-1990
4325 Bollard Girls Home daily movements book 1988-1989
4326 Bollard Girls Home Punishment Book 1988-1989
Held in Wellington:
R2147573 Tapes - Advisory Committee on a Maori Perspective - Bollard Girls and Allendale and Owairaka - Special tapes 1985
R2147816 Maori Perspective Advisory Committee - [Transcripts of Tapes] - Bollard Girls and Allendale and Owairaka [Special Tape] 1985
R19241389 Welfare - management functions - national and dependant institutions - Bollard GH Auckland - General - 1972-1980
R17217481 Archbishop Johnston Papers - Bollard Girls Home 1982.
R24132809 and R24132810 Child Welfare Home, Bollard Avenue - girls home - Construction - correspondence, tenders, memoranda to and from contractors 1969-1976
R25490124 School site plan - Bollard Avenue Girls' Welfare Home [Avondale] 1971-1973
R23453858 Bollard Girls Home and Owairaka Boys home [Archives NZ file re transfer of records] 1990-1993
R22469315 Government Buildings - Child welfare girls' home 60 Bollard Avenue, Avondale - land 1971-1972
R82150 & R82151 Bollard Avenue Girls' Home - staff residences 1966-1971, classroom block 1968-1971
R22296045 & R22296046 Bollard Ave Girls Home - staff residence 1971, classroom block 1971 [plans]
R222264051 Bollard Avenue - Girls Home Auckland Child Welfare Relocatable Classroom 1971-1974
R22264052 Booard Avenue (Auckland) - Girls Home 2 Residences 1970-1974.
Also mentioned in R6740845 Directory of Residential Facilities for Children in the Department of Social Welfare and Voluntary Agencies 1983.
Information provided by Oranga Tamariki to the Crown Response to the Abuse in Care Inquiry on 14 March 2024
Whanaketia - Part 4 Nature and extent: Survivor experience: Neta Kerepeti
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