The registers include the following details:
Gender and age: Boys aged eight and over
Capacity:
Operated under St Mary’s Church in Nelson, then the Marist Brothers until September 1900. Father George Mahoney then became the manager, and Mr & Mrs Fitzgerald took charge.
The building was destroyed by fire April 1903. A new building was completed in 1905. In 1920 the building was sold to government and the home was run by Department of Education.
The home closed in 1919. For a short time, the building was used for as a ‘special school for backward boys’.
Then it housed the Ngawhatu Psychiatric Hospital (a psychiatric hospital) in 1920 till around 2000.
https://www.theprow.org.nz/society/nelson-orphanages/
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