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Biography: Wallis, Mary Ann Lake

The Wallis orphanage, Motueka

The Wallis orphanage, Motueka
This 1980s sketch of the orphanage run by Richard and Mary Ann Wallis shows what it might have looked like in the late nineteenth century.

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Elspeth Mairs. 'Wallis, Mary Ann Lake', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1993. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3426/the-wallis-orphanage-motueka (accessed 6 June 2026).