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Kōrero: Children’s homes and fostering

Orphanage children, 1926

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Orphanage children, 1926

The children and staff of the Anglican orphanage in Papatoetoe gather for a photograph with the Archbishop of New Zealand, Alfred Averill, in 1926. The children would have been dressed in their best clothes (not worn ordinarily) for the archbishop's visit.

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira

Reference: C2793

Permission of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Kerryn Pollock, Children’s homes and fostering – Church institutions and charitable aid, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/28557/orphanage-children-1926 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 24 March 2011.