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Remembering History: Chinese New Zealanders honor gold miner ancestors | CGTN
A group of young Chinese New Zealanders have made a pilgrimage to the north of the country. They payed respects to hundreds of Chinese gold miners whose coffins were lost at sea in a shipwreck more than a century ago. The bodies were being transported to China when the ship sank. Many of the group are descendants of the early Chinese settlers whose bones were recovered by Māori tribes and buried in sand dunes along with their own ancestors. Read more.
Significance of Cultural Journey to Hokianga and Waitangi for Young Chinese New Zealanders | Te Hiku Radio
Pāruru committee member Erica Blundell speaks to the Te Hiku Radio team about the upcoming cultural journey to Hokianga and Waitangi this weekend.
Chinese New Zealanders make special trip to Northland to honour SS Ventnor history | NZ Herald
The next generation of Chinese New Zealanders spent Waitangi honouring the bond between two peoples born out of shared respect for the dead. A group of 46 Chinese New Zealanders under 35 travelled to Northland to acknowledge the 499 Chinese miners’ remains and 12 crew lost at sea after the SS Ventnor sank more than 120 years ago, and the Māori who helped in their time of need. Read more.
Young Chinese people revisit the site of a centuries-old shipwreck and feel the connection between Maori and Chinese | RNZ
Young Chinese people who participated in this cultural trip to Northland used words such as "unique", "edifying" and "healing" to describe the four-day cultural trip during the Waitangi public holiday. Read more.
What happened at Waitangi | NZGEO
Erica Blundell and Sidney Gig-Jan Wong were part of a contingent of 46 young Chinese New Zealanders who’d taken part in a kaupapa called Pāruru, a trip that had taken them first to the Hokianga to acknowledge the wreck of the SS Ventnor, where the remains of 499 Chinese miners sank off the coast in 1902. Read more.