AmandaNgopage3

media type="custom" key="3581154"  Mrs Marianne Smith started a small drapery shop in Queen Street in 1880. She and her husband arrived in January 1880, by ship from Northen Island. The next year her husband joined her in the business, called William H Smiths, and soon after, her brother, Andrew Caughey, joined them as well. Smith and Caughey’s was set up when he joined and became a partner in 1882. They used to sell dresses, hats, sheets and towels and other things for the home. They even had a Mail Order Service, so that they could post goods out to people who lived in the country.

Map from Diocesan to where Smith and Caughey's was first set up media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=%22Diocesan+School+For+Girls%22%2BAuckland&daddr=Queen+St,+Auckland,+1010,+New+Zealand&hl=en&geocode=FRNBzf0dr-hqCiGA97lZeKacNg%3B&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=-36.896239,174.801492&sspn=0.136732,0.219727&ie=UTF8&ll=-36.865405,174.771115&spn=0.02907,0.01419&output=embed" width="425" height="350"

 Interview of William Caughey on Smith and Caughey's media type="custom" key="3615101"

Home Page

Smales Point

Quinton Park Craigavon Park

Karitane Home Caughey Preston Home