A memorial to 499 Chinese gold miners whose remains were lost at sea when the SS Ventnor sank off Hokianga Harbour in 1902 — and the west coast Māori who recovered the bones and buried them alongside their own people — was dedicated in Ōpononi on Saturday. More than 200 members of New Zealand's Chinese community, from as far away as Dunedin, attended the ceremony along with iwi, government ministers and MPs.
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