The Archdiocese of Wellington Archives should have records. The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions should have records from before the 1970's https://rndm.org.nz/contact/. You have the right to know why, if they do not. The Alexander Turnbull Library has registeres of children. Link to their catalogue Tiaki: https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.180722
Gender and age: Mixed 5-13 years, but predominantly boys Capacity: 1950: 50 1965: 33 c. 1969: 50 1974: 35 1976, 77: 24 1978, 79: 20 beds 1979: 17 1984, 86: 20 1986 average occupancy: 14 Controlling organisations: Established and administered by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions (Catholic) until the early 1970s. From c.1975 -1988: Catholic Social Services (Wellington)/ Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington. Third-party provider to State, faith-based Registered 14/3/1943 Other information: Sunnybank operated almost self-sufficiently on 18 hectares of agricultural land from the 1940s until the late 1980s. As a Nelson Photo News story of September 1963 described it, five Sisters of the Mission and a priest tended to the material, educational and spiritual needs of up to 50 boys aged between 5 and 15, not to mention 13 milking cows and a flock of sheep. It operated independently with residential priests and nuns - and minimal outside supervision. For its last dozen or so years as Garindale, the institution became a collection of two or three large family home-type arrangements working under the same roof and overseen out of Wellington by the national Catholic Social Services. Known as Sunnybank 1941-1975 and known as Garindale from 1975-1988. Since 2019, the property is now the Nelson headquarters of Youth With a Mission (YWAM), a global interdenominational Christian organisation who operate youth programmes.
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