The Story of the Ventnor – School Journal Level 3 May 2021

In 1902, thirteen lives were lost when the SS Ventnor sank off the Hokianga coast in Northland. The ship was carrying the carefully packaged bones of almost five hundred Chinese goldminers on their way home for burial. Despite immediate efforts to retrieve the bones, the ship and its precious cargo were lost.

Keywords: ancestors, Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories, bones, ceremony, Cheong Shing Tong, Chinese, Choie Sew Hoy, commemoration, culture, family, gold, goldminer, healing, history, Hokianga, home, kōiwi, memorial, peace, remembering, repatriation, respect, shipwreck, Te Hoko Keha, Te Rarawa, Te Roroa, Te Tao Maui, Ventnor, waharoa, migrants, migration