Gender and age: Mixed.
Capacity:
Controlling organisation: Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion (Catholic Third-party provider to State, faith-based
Operational period: Opened 1907. registered 1/2/1929.
Date of closure as a Children's Home is unknown - still operates as a retreat and conference centre.
1965: The nursery block provides accommodation for 24 children of the lower age group, 12 of these are under 12 months of age and the remainder are well below school entry age, average 2-3 years old. At least 2 of the children are classified as the type which would be found in mental institutions.
From Sisters of Compassion website: "... initially for the care of children and babies".
Appears to have provided general Hospital and nursing from 1920s. Now operates as a retreat and conference centre, as well as the congregation's main office.
'Directory of residential facilities for disturbed children in New Zealand', Department of Social Welfare, 1979. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/40422924
Sister's of Compassion website page on the history of Our Lady's Home of Compassion: https://compassion.org.nz/our-places/our-ladys-home-of-compassion/history-of-our-ladys-home-of-compassion/
Information provided by Te Rōpū Tautoko (Catholic Church) to the Crown Response Unit on 24 May 2024
Citizens Advice Bureau page on Sisters of Compassion: https://www.cab.org.nz/community-directory/KB00038384
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