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  • Serenia Jan 19, 2011 @ 7:40 pm | delete
    I used to work for Trevor Chong in Auckland. He is or was the son or grandson (cant remember which) of Chew Chong - the one who had the butter or dairy factory in Taranaki. Trevor ran a press clipping service that is no longer in business. He was already on his 70s by the time I joined the business in 1995, and he was resistant to change. He didnt like computers and I think that's why his business eventually failed. It was fine back in the 1950s when it was started, but by 2000 (when I left) he was already losing business because he wasn't using the internet to keep his clients updated fast enough.
  • Robin_Forlonge_Patterson Apr 15, 2009 @ 6:45 am | delete
    Good work, Kiwi!

    I had the pleasure of the company of Peter Chin for 5 or 6 years at school in Dunedin. Now he's the Mayor. And the best cook in Plimmerton, apart from my wife, is Chinese.

    Shameful the way your people were treated by my paleface relatives over the last century and a half in this country.

    "Familypedia", the Genealogy Wikia, is a free wiki that is open to non-English contributions. Your folk might give it a try if you want a public website for recording family history.
  • middle_kingdom Dec 7, 2008 @ 8:06 pm | delete
    This is a very interesting lens. You have a lot of very helpful information here. I'd love it if you would visit my lens when you have the chance to.
  • Kiwi_Chinese Apr 27, 2008 @ 4:43 am | delete
    http://ditu.google.cn/

    To locate a village or place name, cut and paste the chinese character here
  • Kiwi_Chinese Apr 24, 2008 @ 8:28 pm | delete
    http://nzchinese.proboards54.com/

    Check out the message board. It's all there waiting for your participation

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1 Looking at the Chinese in Taranaki 1880s to 1960s.
2 History - Migration to New Zealand 1880s-1960s.
3 Recording Headstones in the North Island

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