Second Burial: New Zealand Chinese Experience 1883 and 1902 The Cantonese have a custom of secondary burial, exhuming the dead, cleaning the bones, and then burying them again There were two periods of mass exhumation of Chinese in New Zealand,organised for the Panyu people, by the Dunedin Sew Hoy family. In 1883, 286 Chinese from the South Island were repatriated on the Hoi How. In 1902, 499 were aboard the ill fated Ventnor when it sank 10 miles off the Hokianga Heads. This time Panyu men from both the South Island and the North Island were included, as well as eleven Wellington men from the Jung Seng county of China. This is a tribute to the men whose names were documented and to those whom we will never know. They lie beneath the sea, far away from home and kin. Published by Helen Wong ISBN 978-0-473-24298-5 To purchase in New Zealand - $12.00 including P & P E:helendotfamilytreeatgmail
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