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Chinese market gardener in South Dunedin

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Chinese market gardener in South Dunedin

A Chinese market gardener operates a waterwheel to irrigate his cultivated fields.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Market gardens and production nurseries – History of market gardening, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20001/chinese-market-gardener-in-south-dunedin (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.