Wednesday, October 19, 2011

IT may not be generally known that the Chinese of this colony have a society for the purpoae of arranging and paying for the shipment of their dead countrymen to their native land. Every Chinaman has to make annual contributions, ranging from 5s to £50, according ts his financial position. Ib is stated that the funds of the society now amount to over £8000.— yeoman. Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 169, 11 September 1903, Page 4

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