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Gender and age: Mixed
Controlling organisation: Cook County Women's Guild (Inc).
Third-party provider to State, faith-based.
Opened 1913, Registered 10/7/1929.
1974: Also a day nursery.
Gisborne Photo News photos from November 1955 about the Heni Materoa Home for Children (contains photos of children at the Home and buildings)
Further information about Hēni Mataeroa Carroll (aka Te Huinga, wife of Sir James Caroll) on Te Ara
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Held in Wellington:
R19241550 to R19241553 Children's Homes - Gisborne - Heni Materoa Home 1949-1987
R17923862 Education - preschool services - Child care centre - Heni Materoa day care centre, 690 Gladstone Rd, Gisborne 1983-1986
R16655249 Grants - Refuge grants - Children's creche, Gisborne and Heni Materoa Home 1942-1971
'Directory of residential facilities for disturbed children in New Zealand', Department of Social Welfare, 1979. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/40422924
31 September 2020 Affidavit of Anita Ngaire Easton for Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children to the Abuse in Care Inquiry
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