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Receipts for money

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Receipts for money

This is the first page of a letter written by a missionary in China in the 19th century. It records receipts for money forwarded by Chinese gold miners in New Zealand to relatives and friends in the P’oon Yu district in Kwantung (Guangdong) Province, south China. Some of the entries are annotated in Chinese characters.

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Manying Ip, Chinese – The first immigrants, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/1087/receipts-for-money (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Manying Ip, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.