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Biography: Ah Chee, Thomas Henry

Opening the first Foodtown

In this segment from Everall Deans’ film, Memories of Auckland past, Molly Ah Chee describes the opening of the first Foodtown at Ōtāhuhu in June 1958.

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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

Reference: From material preserved and made available by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. Courtesy Everall Deans, Planet Narcissus. F268886

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Helene Wong. 'Ah Chee, Thomas Henry', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2019, updated January 2020. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/47246/opening-the-first-foodtown (accessed 6 June 2026).