The opening of the new outpatients' department and new
operating theatre at Dunedin Hospital on March 11, showing
representatives gathered in the main hall. - Otago Witness,
16.3.1910.
WELLINGTON: With the advent of the Consul for China and
his staff many Wellington people have come to change their
ideas very considerably about the Chinese as a nation and their
ability as a people.
The impression given by the Consul, his bright and
intellectual wife and his secretary, has been a decidedly
favourable one.
The secretary (Mr T.H.Shah) has just prepared an interesting
Anglo-Chinese calendar for 1910-11, printed in both Chinese
and English.
It shows (says the Post) the Chinese festivals and the New
Zealand bank holidays, of which there are no fewer than 22
days.
Of these eight only are observed in the Chinese Empire, and
they include the birthdays of the Emperor, Empress Dowager,
and of Confucius, and the summer and winter solstice (or
longest and shortest days).
It includes information on the numbers of Chinese in various
districts.
Those in the four big centres were as follows:-Auckland, 113;
Christchurch, 61; Wellington, 350; Dunedin, 218.
There were 1385 Chinese all told in the Dominion at the last
census.
In Rotorua County there was but one Chinese, and in 51
counties there were none.
• ODT, 16.3.1910.
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