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Historic Smales cottage sold ■■By Nick Krause and Marianne Kelly
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eritage listed Smales cottage in Botany has been sold and could become a childcare facility. It was the first time the ‘dairy manager’s cottage’ on the corner of Smales and Chapel roads had come up for sale in 40 years. Known as Smales cottage, the house is one of the few historic buildings left in the Flat Bush-East Tamaki area. It has protected heritage status over the exterior but not the interior and, as a consequence, the tender documents stipulate the property must be restored. It currently has no electricity, water or sewage connections. Howick historian Alan La Roche has a long association with the unoccupied cottage and says the old early settler appearance will be retained. He has been keeping it tidy and, until recently, hung clothes on the line to deter vandalism on
behalf of the property owner, the Archibald Somerville Trust. “I wanted to make sure this historic cottage was retained as part of our East Tamaki heritage,” he told the Times in September.“There are few historic buildings left in Flat Bush-East Tamaki. I arranged for the building to be repainted and I did some repairs.” Initially, Mr La Roche says, the cottage was part of the Reverend Gideon Smales farm from 1852 to 1894. He lived at “Hampton Park” which includes the historic St John’s Church in East Tamaki Road. The area is now an historical reserve administered by Auckland Council. The Smales-Chapel Road cottage was built in about 1894 by Ambury and English and Company as accommodation for the company’s dairy factory manager, Mr La Roche says. The cottage used to have a large block of land, but with the widened Smales and Chapel Roads there is less land. Tim Irvine, branch
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Smales Cottage has been sold for an undisclosed sum and could become a childcare facility. Times photos Nick Krause
manager at Barfoot & Thompson’s Ponsonby office which conducted the sale, confirmed the building sold last month after six weeks on the
market. Mr Irvine could not reveal how much the building was purchased for and would only say a local developer/business
owner had bought the old home. Asked if he knew what the property was to be used for, he said “possibly a childcare centre”. It’s not the first historic building in the area to go this way. The 117-year-old Guy Homestead on Ti Rakau Drive was on the market for 10 years. JP Singh and business partner Kuljeet Singh paid close to the $3.5 million asking price for the property early in 2014. The Piccolo Park farmthemed child care centre was the culmination of 15 months’ work on the Guy Homestead Restoration Project which opened in May last year to cater for 120 youngsters with a staff of around 17.
ACC funds $1.3m for Gandhi Nivas ➤➤From page 1 Mrs Patel, who is on the Counties Manukau South Asian Police Advisory Board, initially stepped in to fund the pathbreaking initiative. However, it was on the condition that a government agency would take ownership of it once it had been successfully launched. Seeing the tremendous value the initiative was bringing, Mr Bush picked up the gauntlet and knocked on ACC doors. The police work in partnership with ACC to stop family harm. Fortunately ACC felt their involvement with Gandhi Nivas would align with their suite of injury prevention initiatives to reduce family violence, and came to the table to fund the project. The signing of the agreement between Gandhi Nivas, New Zealand Police and ACC was held at the Fo Guang Shan Temple in Flat Bush last Wednesday. ACC will be investing $1.3 million over the next three years to assist with the provision of counselling expertise needed to help the perpetrators examine their actions and help them to change their behaviour. Emma Powell, ACCs head of Injury Prevention, Partnership and Delivery said that thanks to the commissioner’s emails,
Commissioner of New Zealand Police Mike Bush (centre) signs the crucial agreement with Ranjna Patel (left) of Gandhi Nivas and Emma Powell, ACC’s head of Injury Prevention. Photo supplied
they’ve opened the side door to something truly incredible. “It’s a significant step in changing the landscape in terms of innovation that is spot-on. Taking people’s needs and having the foresight to come up with a solution that offers real hope and not just wishful thinking is priceless,” she said. Mr Bush admitted to pushing a few buttons since he was aware of ACC’s willingness to do something tangible around family violence and helping the wider sector. “This is an example of what we need to replicate right across the country,” he said. Mrs Patel spoke highly of the social workers and counsellors at Gandhi Nivas who rendered their service free of charge until she did a couple of fundraisers to help them with basic funds.
Gandhi Nivas was initially set up to cater originally for the South Asian Community but is now providing counselling and support for all ethnicities. More than 65 per cent of those using the services belong to ethnicities other than South Asian. ➤➤In April this year District Commander John Tims presented Ranjna Patel with a Challenge Coin to acknowledge the groundbreaking project that Counties Manukau Police entered in the Problem Oriented Police (POP) Awards. ➤➤In 2014/15 financial year ACC paid over $47million on more than 23,000 assaultrelated claims. The economic cost associated with family violence is estimated to be between $4.1 billion and $7b per year and rising.
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