A previous enquiry started by the Board of the Sedgley Family Centre could not locate the records.
Some records are stored by the Waiarapa Archives (under the Waiarapa Families Anglican Trust Board). Records include:
Photographs of the 1960s listed on catalogue identify boys by name.
The Sedgely Family Centre is now called the Wairarapa Families Anglican Trust:
Gender and age: Boys
Capacity:
Controlling organisation: The Anglican Boys Homes Society Diocese of Wellington Trust Board (Anglican). Third-party provider to State, faith-based
Operational period: Registered 10/7/1929; Not in 1986 list.
Started in 1926 to take the overflow from a Lower Hutt Home. It was used as a school of farming and any profits from surplus produce went towards the upkeep of the home. Ceased being a residential centre in 1988. Sedgley Family Centre operates out of the same site. (Diocesan information is 1940’s to 1987)
Articles from New Zealand Herald:
14 January 2004 'Sexual abuse found to span four decades in Masterton home for boys'
3 December 2003 'More allegations of abuse at Sedgley Home'
Information from Papers Past: from the Wairarapa Age, 13 February 1937 'SEDGLEY HOME.'
Directory of residential facilities for disturbed children in New Zealand', Department of Social Welfare, 1979. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/40422924
31 September 2020 Affidavit of Anita Ngaire Easton for Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children to the Abuse in Care Inquiry
Information provided by the Anglican Church to the Crown Response Unit on 11 July 2024
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