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Caughey Preston Home The Caughey Preston Home is a home to help elderly women who don’t have enough money, or are too old, to look after themselves. It was set up by Marianne Caughey Smith Preston, my great, great Aunt, in 1953. She left in her will all her shares in Smith & Caughey so that the profits from the business could be used to look after old ladies who didn’t have enough money in their old age. The site is about 8 acres between 17 Upland Rd and Ventnor Road in Remuera. It currently has two residential homes, a dementia unit and a hospital for old people. Karitane Home The Karitane Home was the Plunkett Society’s home for looking after young babies, and helping mothers care for them. It is in Mount Albert, on Mclean Street and New North Road. The house was built around the 1870’s. Before it became the Karitane Home, my Great, great Grandfather, Andrew Caughey was living in it, with his seven children. In 1923 he donated it to the Plunkett Society to help care for newborn babies. The Plunkett Society decided that they could use the money in a better way, so they sold the Karitane Home and used the money for several smaller sites around Auckland. They sold it to the Hebron Christian Collage, which currently uses the house and grounds for a school. Map from Diocesan to the Karitane Home media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=%22Diocesan+School+For+Girls%22%2BAuckland&daddr=%22Mclean+Street%22%2BAuckland&hl=en&geocode=FRNBzf0dr-hqCiGA97lZeKacNg%3B&mra=ls&sll=-36.858952,174.773083&sspn=0.0342,0.054932&ie=UTF8&ll=-36.88597,174.744295&spn=0.01486,0.06615&output=embed" width="425" height="350"

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