Hello Ailsa, Good to see Penne has sent you a photo. A number of the buildings are still there although now privately owned. The Hospital was just behind where the cemetery is situated and was not near where the Ecosanctuary building now is. The land used by the Sanctuary was owned by Government in the early days to protect the water supply to the Hospital. If searching for early photos of Dunedin area a good place to start is "Hocken Snapshot" where there are approx 30,000 photos available. You are fortunate to find a headstone for your man as many of the patients who died in these hospitals were buried in 'common ground' and no headstone was allowed. The area at the Waitati cemetery above, under and behind the seat at the end of the driveway contains nearly 300 persons who died in either Seacliff or Orokonui hospitals but have no headstone or formal marked grave. The Waitati/Blueskin cemetery photos should be on the DCC cemetery website within the next 3 months. Regards Allan -----Original Message----- From: Ailsa Corlett Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 12:43 AM To: new-zealand@rootsweb.com Subject: [nz] Requiring Photo of Orokonui Home, Waitati does anyone know if a photo of the old Orokonui Home at Waitati, out from Dunedin exists. I have searched google, archives and timeline etc with no success on finding a photo of the actual home. I have a young person (husbands side of family) who was only 17yrs old when he died of epilepsy and cardiac failure in 1930 while living in the home. I know many of these common ailments of today were not treated like they are today and it was a real shame to see a young 17yr in such a home. I have found a headstone for him at the Waitati Cemetery and on my recent visit took some photos, but would be nice to have a photo of the home as it was back then or around that sort of date. It is nice that it is now a eco-Sanctuary. regards Ailsa Ailsa Corlett ailsa@st.net.au http://home.st.net.au/~ailsa alternative email if having trouble sending to my normal email is: ailsacorlett@gmail.com The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3964/7679 - Release Date: 06/15/14