30 Sep 2024

Here Now

From Afternoons, 3:35 pm on 30 September 2024

A hundred years ago Haining and Frederick Streets in central Wellington were the heart of the capital's Chinese quarter. Today, all but a few fragments are gone. Wellington Chinese Historian Lynette Shum takes producer William Ray on a tour of the Wellington's long lost Chinatown.'

Photographic copy of a part of the New Zealand Mail, 1904, including a photograph of Haining Street, Wellington.

Photo: Ref: 1/2-C-012470-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23091090