| Wilson St | Cheltenham |
| 1930 | Poon Wah |
| 1935 | Poon Wah |
“He didn’t live in the house though. The house was empty. He lived in the shed down the back. He turned it into a kitchen and he lived in there, cooked his meals there……. Poon Wah came from Brunswick. He had a market garden and grew a lot of cauliflowers, pumpkins, turkscap, marrows…He had no water laid on. He had troughs at the end of the land. He’d fill his watering cans, have a yoke across his back and he’d go along and water them all by hand.”
Frank, Jen, Len Le Page.
From the Horse’s Mouth [1]
Sands & McDougall
Sands & McDougall 1930, p241
- Poon Wah, mkt grdnr
References
[1] Rainey. (2015). From the horse’s mouth : twelve of Melbourne’s pioneer market garden families recollect / Joy E Rainey. Kurrajong Press.
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*1 Gardeners who applied for Certificates of Exempting from Dictation Test
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