BREACH OF SHOP ACT.

Ah Fong was cbarged on the information of the Inspector of Faotories with having sold sundry goods from his shop at Manaia on Friday, Ist March, being the statutory half holiday. Aooused pleaded guilty and was fined 5s and costs, Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXX, Issue 2967, 11 March 1895, Page 3

You’ll enjoy Eltham for its pretty Victorian buildings. The main employer here is a cheese factory – buy something tasty for the picnic basket.

New Zealand's success as a dairying nation has many links to this rural town. Chinese businessman Chew Chong exported the country's first butter from Eltham to England in 1884. He also built the first dairy factory in 1887. Historically, Eltham has been the most highly industrialised town (per capita) in New Zealand. Today, cheese is the town’s main claim to fame. Visitors to Eltham can enjoy the charming Victorian and Edwardian buildings; the walk around beautiful Lake Rotokare, which is fed by natural springs; and the chance to buy locally made gourmet cheeses.

http://www.newzealand.com/int/article/eltham/

Taranaki Chinese

http://www.kiwicelts.com/mediawiki/index.php/Taranaki_Chinese

Chew Chong

1827-1844?–1920

Merchant, fungus exporter, butter manufacturer

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2c17/1

http://www.nzgeographic.co.nz/issue-102/chew-chong

Chew Chong

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.

http://tinyurl.com/3hophqv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN67onFk4zw&noredirect=1

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 Jubilee Dairy Factory, http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/agricultural-processing-industries/1/2

Specialty mushrooms, http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/mushrooms-and-other-cultivated-fungi/2

Taranaki region: farming, http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/taranaki-region/9

Eltham,
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/taranaki-places/9

Chinese,
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/chinese

Roadside Stories are a series of audio guides to places of interest on major road trips in New Zealand. Each guide tells the story of an attraction along the way -- its people, its history, its cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit http://www.mch.govt.nz/roadside/