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                    [0] => This agency administered child welfare activities in Wairoa region. Its principal functions were responsibility for the maintenance, care, control and education of children under the special protection of the State.
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            [name] => Department of Education, Child Welfare Division, Wairoa District Office
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                    [custom2] => 1. Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives: 1925, 1926, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1948-1972 Section E (Annual Reports of the Department of Education, Child Welfare Branch.) 2. Malcolm Fraser, Government Statistician, New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1915 (Wellington: Government Printer), 1915 3. Census and Statistics Office, Dominion of New Zealand, New Zealand Official Yearbook 1924 (Wellington: Government Printer), 1923 4. Census and Statistics Department, New Zealand Official Yearbook 1938 (Wellington: Government Printer), 1937 5. Census and Statistics Department, New Zealand Official Yearbook 1939 (Wellington: Government Printer), 1938 6. Hawkes Bay district telephone directories, AAMF 7580 W3327, box 26 (1938-1973) 7. Special Schools and Child Welfare jurisdiction material compiled by the Context Control Unit, Archives New Zealand 2002.
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            [agentMandateEstablishing] => Child Welfare Amendment Act 1948
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                            [name] => Registered files [Wairoa]
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                            [name] => [Wairoa District Office] Client files
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                            [name] => Adoption case files (Wairoa)
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            [history] => 
It is difficult to ascertain precisely when the Wairoa district office was established, as specific regional offices are not generally referred to in the departmental annual reports found in the Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHRs).
Checks of Gisborne district telephone directories (AAMF Series 7580, Accession W3327) have established that the first entry for the Wairoa District Office, Child Welfare Division of the Education Department, appeared in 1964. It has therefore been assumed that the Wairoa district was administered by the Gisborne District Office until 1964. 
Child Welfare offices were the major social welfare agencies which dealt with youth in New Zealand.  A major portion of its work concerned ‘youth at risk’, who were brought to the attention of the Department when they made an appearance before a Stipendary Magistrate or a Judge in the Children’s Court.  These courts were separated from the regular Magistrate’s Court and were looked upon as a court of adjustment, not as a court of judgement.  The proceedings were private, unpublished, informal and usually not held in a courtroom. Children up to the age of seventeen were dealt with here for all offences, with the exception of murder or manslaughter.
A child could be brought before the court on a complaint under the Child Welfare Act that he or she was neglected, indigent, ‘delinquent’, not under proper control, or living in a detrimental environment.  This complaint was most often brought by a child welfare officer.  Alternatively a child would be brought to court if charged with an offence.  The parents of the child were required to be present at the proceedings.
The court could either place the child under the supervision of a child welfare officer for a given period of time while the child was living at home, or it could discharge the case with an admonition, and on occasion an order for restitution or a fine.  If the court believed that it was in the best interests of the child to be removed from the care of his/her parents, the court would issue a committal order and the legal guardianship of the child would be removed from the parents and placed with the Superintendent of the Child Welfare Division.
Most wards of the state were required to attend ordinary schools and encouraged to continue with post-primary schooling.  Children who were considered too emotionally disturbed or ‘delinquent’ to stay in the community were placed in one of the four national training institutions: Kingslea, Kohitere, Hokio Beach School, and Fareham House.
 
 
 
 
 
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