Gender: male
Capacity at 1971: 346
Muster at 24 August 1969: 369
Muster at 23 Aug 1971: 392
Age profile: 15-21
Controllling organisation: Ministry of Justice. State control.
Note from Corrections on operational period: Records provided to the RC go as early as 1954 and institutional knowledge shows ended at 1987.
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Many files relating to land and buildings (Series 889, 1542, 1054, 1539, 1124, 6095, 5113, 500, 24576, 22541; search "Waikeria Prison").
Held in Wellington:
R16362962 to R16362964 Waikeria Prison 1917-1963
R24674548 Re Concrete Block making plant at Invercargill Prison to be sent to Waikeria Prison (Also as to transfer of Warder Boyle to Waikeria) 1912
R24667656 Notifying establishment of Waikeria Reformatory 1921
R11067959 Prison management - Waikeria Prison - Labour for high country planting 1966-1971
R11067960 Prison management - Pirongia Forest Camp - Waikeria 1966-1972
R11070375 to R11070377 Annual reports - general - monthly progress report - Waikeria Prison - general 1936-1973
R11070468 Annual Reports - Monthly progress report by Chief Officer of Works, Waikeria Prison 1955-1956
R11068234 Appointments - appointment of Prison Medical Officers - Waikeria Borstal Institution 1911-1957
R20832463 Milk treatment station - Waikeria Borstal Institution 1950-1951
R20449096 Dictionaries and Encyclopaedia - Waikeria Borstal 1953
R17420789 National Prison Centre, New Borstal - Waikeria 1983-1986
R25958881 Reports of the Arohata, Invercargill and Waikeria Borstal Parole Boards for year ended 31 December 1980
R18388294 Waikeria Borstal - Warden's medical certificates 1918-1936
R22959177 Administration - Inspections - Reports by Psychologist - Waikeria Borstal Institution 1953-1961
R6796373 Research projects - Borstals - Waikeria 1972-1974
R25221831 Waikeria Borstal Institution - Layout plan - proposed water supply 1936
R16362360 Cattle killed for rations - Waikeria Borstal Institution 1939-1961
R16362364 Complaints regarding the scale surplus fruit Waikeria Borstal Institution 1932-1955
R16363007 Trade training - Waikeria Borstal Institution 1952-1966; R11070271 Telephone connections - WBI [nd.d]
R11070368 to R11070372 Annual reports - general - monthly progress report - general - WBI 1941-1971
R11070374 Annual reports - general - Housemaster - WBI 1946-1952
R11070373 Annual reports - general - Monthly progress report - Probation Officer - Waikeri BI 1952-1960
R11067876 Stores - rations - Waikeria BI 1920-1974
R11068311 Prisoners - general - Waikeria Borstal Instituion - Behaviour of prisoners 1953-1971
R11068383 Prisoners - General - trade training - Waikeria BI, supply of machine tools etc 1966-1970
R11068354 Prisoners - general - recreation and amenities - Waikeria BI 1931-1965
R11068358 Prisoners - general - Radio set and public address system - Waikeria BI 1926-1963
R11068365 Prisoners - general - thefts from Waikeria BI and adjoining farms 1934-1961
R11068369 Prisoners - general - Trafficking and clandestine correspondence - Waikeria BI 1934-1954
R11068378 Prisoners - general - transfer of inmates from the reformatory section to borstal - Waikeria BI 1926-1937
R11067864 & R11067889 Stores - tobacco growing at Waikeria Borstal Institution 1940-1956
R11067896 Prison management- Farm programme - Waikeria Borstal Institution 1965-1970
R3195536 Re outbreak of typhoid fever, Waikeria Borstal Institution 1928
R1198326 Roads - Waikeria Borstal 1914-1934
R11198327 Manufacturing concrete blocks - Waikeria Borstal 1913-1921
R1198701 to R1198793 and R1198745 to R1198748, R1198790 and R1198791 The Superintendent - Waikeria Borstal Institution 1934-1936
R11198834 Waikeria BI - Re-erections of No 2 dairy and piggery 1937
R1198876 Waikeria BI - Purchase of a Chevrolet 40cwt motor truck 1938
R1198905 Waikeria BI - Electric power supply 1939; R20954623 Diseases - Enteric fever - Waikeria Borstal 1917-1930
R11068284 Prisoners - General - Waikeria Youth Centre - National Prison Centre 1968-1970
R11068403 Prisoners - General - Religious Services - Waikeria (National Prison Centre) 1951-1966
R11067896 Prison management - Farm programme - Waikeria Borstal Institution 1965-1970
R3194775 Re Foundation Stone of Waikeria Reformatory Prison 1911
R3194908 Jailer, Waikeria, re Prison mail 1912; R3195131 Waikeria Prison re prevention of escapes 1917
R3195260 Roads through Waikeria Prison Reserve 1920
R3195447 Proclaiming that a portion of Waikeria Prison shall cease to be a prison 1925
R11198266 & R11198267 Inspector of Prisons - Erection of No. 6 cottage and No. 13 Cottage, Waikeria 1918
R11198275 Inspector of Prisons - To establishing a primary classification of reformative and hard labour prisoners at Waikeria and Invercargill 1918
R23910778 Acquisition of Rangitoto A No. 13B No 2 and Wharepuhunga 5B in connection with Waikeria Reformatory Farm 1920
R5902842 Staff - Departmental Establishments - Justice and Prisons - Borstals and Prisons - National Prison Centre - Waikeria [n.d.]
Held in Auckland:
one Court Action file in series 14616 (item reference R23388270, date 1958-1959)
R23388270 R Jones of Waikeria, Prison Officer v the Attorney-General 1958-1959
R25450387 Hamilton High Court miscellaneous - Palmer v General Manager Waikeria Prison 1994
R23552730 Bankruptcy file - Howarth of Waikeria Borstal Institute, prisoner undergoing reformative detention 1933-1949
R1489782 Water supplies - Otorohanga County - Waikeria Borstal 1947-1972
Information shared by the Department of Corrections with the Crown Response Unit on 19 June 2024
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