Presbyterian Support Upper South Island does not hold any records for Holly Road Family Home due to the organisational policy at the time (dispose records after 10 years). Any remaining records of the Children’s Homes and foster care operations were likely destroyed or lost when the Head Office of the organisation relocated within Christchurch in 1990 from Hereford Street to Bealey Avenue and again when forced to relocate after the Christchurch earthquakes due to property damage that required the building on the current site to be demolished and rebuilt. Some historical records may be held at Presbyterian Research Centre (Archives): Address: Knox College, Arden Street, Opoho, Dunedin 9010, New Zealand Telephone: 0064 3 473 0777|Email: pcanzarchives@prcknox.org.nz|Website: https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/ Records and data for Holly House (not Holly Road Family Home), are available from 1993 onwards with a gap in 2004, and data for 2017 and 2018 but no detailed files.
Long-term Children's Home Gender and age: Mixed, 1965: 10-14;c.1969, 74, 76, 77, 78: 4-16 Capacity: 1965: 8 children; c.1969: 9; 1974, 76, 77, 78: 8 Controllling organisaton: Presbyterian Social Service Association (Canterbury). cements. Holly House/Kinect was a home for teenage mothers and their babies transitioned from Holly Road children's home and operated from 1991 to 2018 with a name change in 2016 to Kinect. The home was originally located at 88 Holly Road, Merivale, Christchurch and moved in 2008 to Crosby Street, Mairehau, Christchurch. Records and data for Holly House, are available from 1993 onwards with a gap in 2004, and data for 2017 and 2018 but no detailed files.
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