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Gender and age groups: boys initially: 1-15
Capacity:
1965: 18 children
circa 1969: 20
1973: 4 boys
Controlling organisation: Hawkes Bay Children's Home (Inc)
Operational period: Registered 23/1/1929
By 1974 was no longer operating as a Children's Home.
1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979: Day care for pre-school children. Emergency overnight accommodation for a family (one room). Five mother and baby flatettes. Sold to the government in September 1973 and became Beck House.
Book: Morris Matthews, Kay. (2013). Who Cared? Childhoods within Hawke’s Bay Children’s Homes and Orphanages 1892-1988. (EIT, Hawke's Bay). Includes account from John McKinnon who greq up in France House.
See press release about the book's release from 2012.
31 September 2020 Affidavit of Anita Ngaire Easton for Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children to the Abuse in Care Inquiry
History of France House document (date and author unknown but confirms details in above source):
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