Most Chinese settlers came
to Australia to search for gold. In1852 news of gold had reached southern China,
and many men from Honk Hong, Shantou and Xiamen’s shippers arrived under a
credit-ticket system, with fares to be paid once fortunes were made. The
Chinese did not only mine for gold, but took on jobs such as cooks, peddlers,
and storekeepers. In the first decade after the discovery of gold, many had
taken jobs nobody else wanted or that were considered too dirty for the locals.
They came here because China is a very big country and some wanted to see
fortune here in Australia.
The Chinese immigrants came
to Australia in the 20th century some time. Most Chinese settlers
came to Australia in 1848 to search for gold in the minds but in1861 and act
was past to reduce the number of Chinese people aloud into the colony. So from
there on they had to try and find other ways of producing money by opening
stores, becoming merchants and a fish curing industry which supplied dry fish
to the Chinese people throughout NSWS as well as Melbourne. Other occupations
included scrub cutters, cooks, interpreters, market gardeners, cabinetmakers,
tobacco farmers and drapers.
When the Chinese immigrants first
got here they went straight to the mind fields and then as the city’s and towns
popped up they all started working there and some even worked on properties.
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