Chew Chong, Taranaki entrepreneur - Roadside Stories

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Chew Chong, Taranaki entrepreneur - Roadside Stories

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For more than a century dairy farming has been the basis of Taranaki's economy. One of New Zealand's first dairy factories was opened near Eltham in 1887 by Chinese entrepreneur Chew Chong, who had been exporting edible fungus to China. Despite anti-Chinese prejudice, Chong was a successful businessman who began an export trade in butter. Chew Chong, http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2c17 Dairying and dairy products, http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/dairying-and-dairy-products Chew Chong's J...

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