Date

Thursday 11 October, 10.30am-11.30am

Venue

Point Chevalier Library

1221 Great North Rd, Point Chevalier

Cost

Free

Bookings

No bookings required

Website

facebook.com/pointchevalierlibrary

Event details

Historian Lisa Truttman explores the stories behind the largest combined area of Chinese market gardens on the Auckland Isthmus – those which were once at Arch Hill and Mt Albert, along with surrounding earlier ones in Herne Bay and Grey Lynn, and later ones at Point Chevalier.

Productive from 1880 through to the 1940s, these gardens helped supply Aucklanders and visitors to the city with fresh vegetables.

They were also the basis for the growth of Chinese businesses, leading to a settled Chinese community in Auckland, despite discrimination, thefts, wild chases after pilferers across the landscape, and shooting incidents.

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