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
