From Hocken reference guide: Presbyterian Support Southland holds limited records
Gender and age: Mixed, 1965: 6 months and 16 years; c 1969-1979: 3-15. Capacity: 12 beds Controlling organisation: Presbyterian Social Services Association (Southland). Third-party provider to State, faith-based Operational period: 1948-1980. Registered 22/3/1943. 1982: Flagged as currently out of operation and closed in 1980. This home opened in 1948 as a replacement for Invercargill’s Cameron Home. It was inititally located in a two-storied property, formerly the home of the MacGibbon family, in Huron Street, East Gore. In 1964 this was replaced by a more modern building in Ardwick Street, Gore. The home closed in 1980 and the building was then leased to the NZ Society for the Intellectually Handicapped.
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