Chinese involvement in Te Aroha and its mining
Citation
Export citationHart, P. (2016). Chinese involvement in Te Aroha and its mining. (Te Aroha Mining District Working papers, No. 132). Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato, Historical Research Unit.
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Abstract
No Chinese mined in the Te Aroha district, but a few lived there quietly as market gardeners and owners of laundries. A few Chinese children attended the local school, provoking a controversy about these allegedly unclean children that saw the complainant defeated by public and press opinion. Only two Chinese invested in local mining; the career of one of these, Ah Chee, is summarized.
Perhaps because so few Chinese lived in the district they were not seen as a problem by anyone apart from rival business men and women.
Date
2016Type
Report No.
132
Publisher
Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato
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© 2016 Philip Hart