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media type="custom" key="3560462" Smales Point used to be a well known landmark on Auckland harbor, at the bottom of town. It got its name from Captain Smale. He used to live there, and dock his ship, the Chelydra, there all the time. Now, all of Smales Point has been reclaimed (all the sea has been filed in with soil,) and there is a big egg shaped building where Smales Point used to be, which is now on the corner of Albert Street and Customs Street, Captain Smale was born in Scotland in 1796. In 1840, he brought the first immigrants to Auckland. His was the first ship to go to China in the 1840’s. Captain Smale lived on Albert Street until 1842, when he moved to Epsom, and bought a small farm. In 1840, Captain Smale married Emma Rich. They had two sons, one of which was my great, great grandfather, Francis Dyer Rich Smale, born six months before Captain Smale drowned. In 1851, the captain of the ship, The Maori, was ill, and Captain Smale was asked to take command. The boat was wrecked on a sand bar in a heavy storm. Most of the people on board were rescued, but Captain Smale, and his nephew, Benjamin Donne, drowned.

Map from Diocesan to where Smales Point used to be media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=%22Diocesan+School+For+Girls%22%2BAuckland&daddr=Lower+Albert+St,+Auckland,+Auckland+1010,+New+Zealand&hl=en&geocode=FRNBzf0dr-hqCiGA97lZeKacNg%3B&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=-36.86218,174.771881&sspn=0.068397,0.109863&ie=UTF8&ll=-36.86218,174.771881&spn=0.03577,0.01419&output=embed" width="425" height="350"  Interview of Shona Caughey on Smales Point media type="custom" key="3609628" 

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