He’d lived among more than 400 Chinese expertly sluicing fine gold from the Round Hill hillside of the Longwoods, on New Zealand’s south coast. Robyn Edie/Stuff An information sign at the start of the walking track to the remnants of the Round Hill Chinese gold mining settlement in the Longwood Forest, near Riverton. Robyn Edie/Stuff The two-storeyed Taai In Lau (Peaceful Tower) tea shop in the Round Hill Chinese mining settlement. Robyn Edie/Stuff Almost no trace of the Round Hill mining settlement remains. Georgia Weaver/Stuff The bush is dense through the Long Hilly walk at Round Hill.

Source: Stuff June 25, 2022 09:08 UTC