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Gender and age: Boys over five years. Controlling organisation: Anglican Diocese of Christchurch Operational period: Opened c1910, registered 15/4/1929, closed before 1962. Other information found: The home catered for girls of all ages, and for boys aged between 2 and 5. Boys under 2 were catered for at the Babies’ Home, Sumner. After 5, they went to the Timaru Boys’ Home. Potentially open as St Saviour's since c1910. An earlier version of the Home/an earlier institution on the same site was St St Mary's Home, a rescue Home for women and girls until 1909.
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