Wong Heong

Operated a fruit shop at 16^[1]^[2] Courtenay Place^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6], around 1892^[3] - 1900^[4].

The New Zealand Police Gazette of 25 March 1892^[3] reported that between 10 and 11.30 a.m. on the 12th March 1892, his shop was entered by means of a duplicate key, and about £2 stolen^[3].

In February 1895, he was fined for opening his shop on the half-holiday of 6 February.^[7]

On 12 October 1894, the New Zealand Mail reported that he had been issued with his Letter of Naturalisation.^[8]

On 1 May 1900, the Evening Post published in the Advertisement section, a plea from fruit shop owners Wong Heong, Chow Fong, Ngan Lee, L. A. Pat, Yee Wah, and Yung Kee, that people not judge all Chinese run fruit shops on the basis of the poor sanitary conditions of found at one Chinese owned fruit shop.^[4]

50135-max — Mrs Merry. Wong Heong Fruiterer, Merry Cottage. Unknown photographer. (1898). *Courtenay Place, North facing* (AC026-22) [Black and White Silver Gelatin Print]. Wellington City Council Archives. https://archivesonline.wcc.govt.nz/nodes/view/148541

343849-max — Mrs Merry (owner). Building on right is Wong Heong Fruiterer, left is Merry Cottage. Unknown photographer. (1898). *Courtenay Place, South facing* (AC026-21) [Black and White Silver Gelatin Print]. Wellington City Council Archives. https://archivesonline.wcc.govt.nz/nodes/view/148570

00248-44 (detail) — H P Hanify. (1898). *Plan showing occupancy of houses &c, Grainger Street* (00248-268) [Plan]. Wellington Harbour Board; Wellington City Council Archives. Location of Wong Heong outlined in green https://archivesonline.wcc.govt.nz/nodes/view/103183

Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings. (1892). New Zealand Police Gazette, XVI(6), 38. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZPG18920323.2.5

CITY CHINESE FRUIT STORES, A PROTEST, Evening Post, 1 May 1900 — CITY CHINESE FRUIT STORES, A PROTEST (1900). *Evening Post, 1 May 1900*, Page 1 Advertisements Column 5. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19000501.2.2.5?items_per_page=10

Letters of Naturalisation, New Zealand Mail, 12 October 1894, p 19 — Letters of Naturalisation’. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1180, 12 October 1894, 12 Oct. 1894, p. 19, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZMAIL18941012.2.57.

↑ H P Hanify. (1898). Plan showing occupancy of houses &c, Grainger Street (00248-268) [Plan]. Wellington Harbour Board; Wellington City Council Archives. https://archivesonline.wcc.govt.nz/nodes/view/103183
↑ Ayla [@koning2a]. (2023, February 20). @WgtnChineseHist https://archivesonline.wcc.govt.nz/nodes/view/103183 have you seen this before? Based on this, I would put the location at roughly where 16 Courtenay Place is now. Https://t.co/AkVLnBkgVp [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/koning2a/status/1627521583760949255
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Housebreaking, Stealing from the Person and from Dwellings. (1892). New Zealand Police Gazette, XVI(6), 38. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZPG18920323.2.5
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 CITY CHINESE FRUIT STORES, A PROTEST, Evening Post, 1 May 1900. (1900, May 1). Evening Post. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19000501.2.2.5?items_per_page=10
↑ Unknown photographer. (1898). Courtenay Place, North facing (AC026-22) [Black and White Silver Gelatin Print]. Wellington City Council Archives. https://archivesonline.wcc.govt.nz/nodes/view/148541
↑ Unknown photographer. (1898). Courtenay Place, South facing (AC026-21) [Black and White Silver Gelatin Print]. Wellington City Council Archives. https://archivesonline.wcc.govt.nz/nodes/view/148570
↑ THE HALF-HOLIDAY. (1895, February 16). New Zealand Times, 4. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18950216.2.27
↑ Letters of Naturalisation’. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1180, 12 October 1894, 12 Oct. 1894, p. 19, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZMAIL18941012.2.57.