Records are held at Archives New Zealand. To request access to records from Archives NZ, contact the controlling agency, which is Te Whatu Ora - Health NZ Waitaha Canterbury (formerly Canterbury DHB).Some records may also be held at Presbyterian Research Centre (Archives): email archivist@prcknox.org.nz.
Gender: mixedControlling organisation: North Canterbury Hospital BoardState controlOperational period:Orphanage opened 1905, registered 17/7/1929.Renamed 1941.Huntsbury registered 24/10/1954Waltham closed before 1957.Further information:This institution, opened in 1905 by the North Canterbury Hospital Board, in what had been a private residence, replaced the Canterbury Orphanage (Lyttelton). It accepted male and female children who had been orphaned or abandoned, or whose parents, through illness or misfortune, were simply unable to care for them. In 1957, it became the Teresa Green Home for the elderly. Children who would formerly have received care from this institution were thenceforward sent to the Huntsbury Home. https://www.archives.govt.nz/research-guidance/research-guides/welfare/charitable-aid-and-welfare-records-christchurch#s3-department-of-social1972: The above home is owned by the North Canterbury Hospital Board and has been operated by them for many years. The Board has now ceased to run it as a Children's Home, and there is aproposal to lease it to the Presbyterian Social Services Association who would continue its use as a children's home.1974: Will take handicapped children.
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