Presbyterian Support Northern have advised that they have not been able to locate any personal records from this Home which means that, unfortunately, it appears that records from this Home have not survived. The Privacy Policy and Records Managemet Policy of Presbyterian Support Northern provided for personal information to be destroyed 10 years after it was archived.
Gender and age: Mixed, 5-16 years
Capacity:
Controlling organisation: Presbyterian Social Services Association (Auckland)
Operational period: Opened 1911, closed in the 1980s. Registered 1/8/1929. Date of closure unclear, but was not operation by 1979.
Third-party provider to State, faith-based
1965: Although accommodation is available for more children, we understand that it is now policy not to increase the number above 25.
1974: The organisation controlling this home also arranges foster-home placements.
In 2004, Presbyterian Support Northern sold the site to Oceania Healthcare, which opened its first Meadowbank Village apartment buildings, called Kohimarama and St Heliers, in October 2012.
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R24649294 Registration as charitable institution - 1926
R22417739 [Lands & Survey] - Bills and Acts - Leslie Presbyterian Orphanage Board Trustees 1919
R23405565 [Declaratory Judgments Act - several people and institutions named including Leslie Presbyterian Orphanage Board] - 1925
'Directory of residential facilities for disturbed children in New Zealand', Department of Social Welfare, 1979.
31 September 2020 Affidavit of Anita Ngaire Easton for Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children to the Abuse in Care Inquiry
Presbyterian Support (Northern) Website page on 'Our History'
'Leslie Centre Celebrates Century of Caring for Children' Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 238, 7 October 1940, Page 5
Information provided by Presbyterian Support Northern to the Crown Response Unit on 14 October 2024
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