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Does the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust promote any types of projects or objectives?

The Trust promotes, but does not limit itself to, funding:

  • learning and use of the Cantonese language
  • awareness and understanding of the history of Chinese communities in New Zealand
  • the recording and preserving of Chinese New Zealand history
  • greater public understanding of ethnic diversity with particular emphasis on the contributions of Chinese New Zealanders
  • Chinese arts and culture (including Chinese New Zealand creative and cultural expression).

The eight trustees are all descendants of the original poll tax payers:

  • Rodney Wong 黃华鈴 (Chairperson)
  • Hector Wong 黃鐵克
  • Denise Ng 伍玉萍
  • David Wong 黄家興
  • Eileen Ng 謝靄燕
  • Deborah Sew Hoy 徐玉蓮
  • Jennifer Too 朱余敬貞
  • Lois Yee 余笑儀