Gender and age: male State licencing and/or monitoring, faith-based Operational period: 1909-1954/55; Not in 1962 registry From Te Ara page: "This was the first Salvation Army home for orphaned or needy boys. It closed in 1954 and the building burned down in 1971." "The first Salvation Army home for girls opened in Newtown, Wellington, in 1903. The first boys’ home opened in Eltham, Taranaki, in 1909. Several more children’s homes followed. Most residents were orphans, although some had lost one parent, or their parents could not look after them. "Living conditions were harsh, and misbehaviour meant no dinner that night. ‘I hated every year I was there,’ said one former Eltham resident. ‘I used to look at the pillow shams [pillowslips] embossed with the words “God is Love” and think, “If you love us, why don’t you help us?”"
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