New Zealand Chinese Heritage Research Charitable Trust

07/10/2026

The history of Chinese pig roasting in Palmerston North.
By Rodney Wong

Rodney Wong ONZM Pig roasting paddle, c. 1970s, private collection. Photograph: Freddie Errazo. Image credit: Te Manawa Museum Society, CC BY-NC 4.0. Chinese pig roasting There is a rich culture of…

12/05/2026

Join us in person or on Zoom for the 2026 NZCHRCT AGM.

Thursday 28 May
In person at the Seminar Room of Knox College.
Light refreshments from 5.15pm
Speaker starts 5.45pm

On Zoom from 5.45pm, see our FB Event for the link:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1CnUPXtyaT/

05/05/2026

Here is a selection of some of the photographs from the collections of Dr James and Eva Ng which were recently digitised as part of a grant from the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust. These images are hosted online at https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/. Many thanks to Brent Whear for all his work digitising and describing these images; .

29/04/2026

We thank Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust for their grant this past year, which enabled initial processing of a huge uplift of archival materials from the Dr James Ng estate, received in March 2025. We were able to upload the trove of photographs received in albums then, as well as to begin work on cataloguing background archival research materials relating to Dr Ng's seminal work, "Windows on a Chinese Past." The grant covered labour and material costs, for this project.
This is all by way of bolstering the Ng Collection, a UNESCO Memory of the World collection held by PRC on behalf of the New Zealand Chinese Heritage Research Charitable Trust.

07/04/2026

In this new article from Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, Alison Breese explores the story of Amelia Peacock, who married Sam Chew Lain, a well respected Lawrence businessman who ran the Chinese Empire Hotel;

When our Otago/Southland Heritage Assessment Advisor Alison Breese researched a Chinese tomb in Lawrence for the new heritage listing report, she came across previously unknown information about the European Australian women connected with the Chew Lain family.