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Kōrero: Children’s homes and fostering

Residential institutions: Epuni Boys Home, 1975

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Residential institutions: Epuni Boys Home, 1975

This boy has to stand 'on line' in the quad of the Epuni Boys Home in Lower Hutt as punishment for bad behaviour. This type of punishment was seen as giving the offender a chance to calm down and reflect on his behaviour.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1975/4025

by Ron Fox

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, 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 – Government institutions, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/28591/residential-institutions-epuni-boys-home-1975 (accessed 4 June 2026).

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