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The Reverend Alexander Don with Chinese gold miners

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The Reverend Alexander Don with Chinese gold miners

As Presbyterian missionary to Otago's Chinese gold miners, Alexander Don was often insensitive and overbearing, but his meticulous written records and photographs of his mission work constitute a major record of a minority ethnic community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, McNeur Collection (PAColl-5135)

Reference: 1/2-019156; F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

James Ng. 'Don, Alexander', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1993. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/412/the-reverend-alexander-don-with-chinese-gold-miners (accessed 28 June 2026).