Chapter 1: Context. 6. Kohitere Boys’ Training Centre (Kohitere Centre) began as Weraroa State Farm in 1906 just outside of Taitoko Levin. It provided farm training for orphans, boys referred from the court, and those from “unsatisfactory

Chapter 2: Circumstances that led Deaf children to be placed at Van Asch and Kelston. 33. Deaf children were sent to deaf schools at a very young age on a day or boarding basis on the advice of educators, medical and health professionals, and due to

Survivor experience: Tani Tekoronga Ngā wheako o te purapura ora. Name Tani Tekoronga. Hometown Whakatū Nelson. Age when entered care 11 years old. Year of birth 1974. Time in care 1985–1992. Type of care facility Foster homes; family homes –

Part 2. BSoler, J, Drifting towards moral chaos -The 1954 Mazengarb Report – a moral panic over “juvenile immorality,” Master’s Thesis, Massey University (1988) (PDF,. Te Tai – Treaty Settlement Stories, Ngā Tamatoa and Te Reo Māori