Sixteen years ago the descendants of the men who founded the Ng King Bros. Chinese Market Garden expressed their desire to share their land and the legacy of their buildings and stories with the community. Our new exhibition A New Era: Ng King Bros. Chinese Market Garden Settlement celebrates the restoration and February 2024 re-opening of this significant local site to the public.

Now listed by Pouhere Taonga Heritage New Zealand as a Category 1 Historic Place, the Allens Road settlement was once one of the largest commercial market gardens in Aotearoa, operative from 1921 until 1964. Explore the history and archaeology of this important Hakatere Ashburton site and the Ng King family’s part in the social history of Chinese settlers who migrated to Aotearoa New Zealand, including how they lived, contributed to and integrated into society.