26 Jun 2020

Discovery of Chinese miners' remains causing fury

From Morning Report, 7:55 am on 26 June 2020

Almost 120 years after they sank to the bottom of the Tasman Sea, the discovery of the remains of Chinese gold miners is causing fury.

The New Zealand Chinese Association says a documentary crew should not have filmed body parts of some of the 499 miners who sank with the SS Ventnor in 1902.

The miners' bodies were being transported back to their homeland when the ship struck a reef and sank off the Hokianga coast.

Matthew Theunissen reports.