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CHINESE NEW YEAR MARKET DAY 2020/2021

Photo by John Ling

CHINESE NEW YEAR MARKET DAY 2020

2020 Chinese New Year Festival and Market Day

by David Tai

The annual ACCC Chinese New Year Festival and Market Day was held once again at the ASB Showgrounds. It was held earlier this year than previous years, on Saturday 18 January 2020. This year’s event was the most financially successful one that ACCC has ever had, with more sponsors and over 20,000 attendees to welcome the Year of the Golden Rat.

ACCC chose to co-host this year’s event with NZCM Media Group for the second time, This new partnership has proven to be a very successful mix. NZCM Media Group attracted some new sponsorship and provided media support to promote the event.

Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern arrived at the event around 9.45am to open the event. The Prime Minister and China Ambassador dotted eyes of two lions before Peter Low's E- Pacs team performed the traditional lion dance in front of the crowds congregated outside the main entrance of the ASB Show Buildings. The official opening continued inside the concert hall with speeches from dignatories such as the Prime Minister, Simon Bridges (Leader of Opposition), Phil Goff (Auckland Mayor) and representatives of our Platinum sponsors. This year, the event was also honoured to have the Ambassador of Peoples Republic of China, her Excellency Xi Wu, to speak at the event for the first time.

Planning of this event began as soon as the 2019 event finished. This planning was led by the ACCC Chairman. Kai Luey with behind the scene help from David Tai, John Kum and John Ling. Sales of the stalls began in July 2019 and indoor stalls were sold out by November 2019, Setting up of the halls on the Friday before the big day was much easier this year because of the many ACCC Sport Club volunteers were able to turn up because school had not started.

The ACCC Executive Committee turned up on the great day and gave their full support to make the event a very successful one.

ACCC would like to acknowledge the valuable support from our new co-hosts, our many generous sponsors, stallholders, entertainers and volunteers in making the 2020 CNY Festival & Market Day another extremely successful occasion.

DETAILS FOR NEXT YEARS 2021 MARKET DAY ON "CHINESE NEW YEAR" LINK ABOVE

CHINESE NEW YEAR MARKET DAY 2021

CHINESE SCHOOL 2020. Details on "ACTIVITIES PAGE" above.

ACCC SCHOLARSHIPS 2019/ 2020

A new initiative for ACCC will be the introduction of the ACCC Scholarship beginning 2019.

Our Community Centre has enjoyed the support, finance or work groups or service of many long serving members throughout the years. In the last few years, our focus has been to refurbish and upgrade the Mangere facility. We now have a modern facility of which we are proud of, and hopefully utilised by lots of interest groups, including our Chinese School from 2019.

ACCC acknowledges the importance of the continuity of our organisation for future generation and the need to develop committed members who will remain within this organization and lead it into its future. The Executive Committee, under the guidance of Chairman Kai Luey, has established scholarships that will both recognise committed member's contribution to the ACCC and their academic achievements and help them to achieve their academic goals so they can develop into future leaders of the organisation.

Rather than a one-off payment to successful awardee(s), it is worthy to note the significance we have placed in "continuity" and "the future". Therefore, we are prepared to support scholars through their tertiary journey, whether it is three or four years. In tandem with our Undergraduate studies Category 1 scholarships ($1000 per year), we have also introduced a Post-Graduate studies Category 2 scholarship. A Category 2 scholar will receive $3000 for each year he(she) is eligible.

Information including criteria and application form are on our ACCC website. Applications for 2020 will be opened from 01 January 2020 and closes on 31 March 2020. The successful scholars will be advised prior to the ACCC Annual Dinner.

For more details open link below:

ACCC SCHOLASHIP LINK

PLEASE RENEW YOUR 2020 SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW

FOR DETAILS ON HOW TO RENEW YOUR 2020 MEMBERSHIP OR TO JOIN ACCC

GO TO MEMBERSHIP PAGE ABOVE

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DONATION FOR ENDURING MEMBERSHIP 2020

A donation of $500 or more for eligible individuals or

A donation of $1,000 or more for eligible couples

will provide the benefits of Enduring Membership with no expiry date and exemption from annual membership fees.

Also, the names of the donors will be permanently displayed on a brick.

DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTABLE

For Details: Contact Kai Luey Phone 522 1840

Honour Board Original Donors

HALL USERS CHARGES FOR 2020

Members $3

Non members $5

These charges apply to activities organised by ACCC

HALL HIREAGE CHARGES 2020 *** Go To "Activities Page" above for details.

Hirage payable are available on "Activities Page" above.

Contact Cathrine Ming Ph: 027 2749851 Email: cathrine.ming@gmail.com

INFORMATION FOR ORDERING "THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOURS"

Information for ordering "The Fruits of Our Labours"

The Fruits of Our Labours is a two-volume, softcover set of books. It is available directly from the Chinese Fruit Shops Research Group. The price is $50.00 per set incl GST. Postage and packaging is $11.00 extra.

Payment

Online banking - transfer funds to Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust BNZ account: 02-0536-0112633-26

Please use your surname and phone no as the reference

Please email a screenshot of the confirmation of payment page to fruitsofourlabours@gmail.com

How to take a screenshot on a PC or laptop:

Press the Windows key and the print screen key (or Shift key + print screen key) at the same time to take the screenshot. Paste or attach it into your email message.

NB: the screenshot may have been saved to the Screenshots folder of your Pictures folder. If so, then copy the screenshot and paste it into your email message.

How to take a screenshot on an iPad or tablet:

Press the Home button and the on/off button at the same time to take the screenshot. It will be saved to the Photos folder and can be emailed as a photo.

Cash – pay cash when collecting the books.

Cheques - make payment to the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust and post cheque to Ruth Lam, 35 Hunt Road, RD1, Tuakau, 2696 or pay when collecting the books.

Collection points

Location	Person	Phone No.	Mobile Phone No.
Auckland - Epsom	Bev. Lowe	09 630 6866	021 230 7258
Auckland - ACCC Mangere	Connie Kum	09 625 8611	021 115 0689
Auckland - Newmarket	Helen Wong	09 849 6542	021 254 8598
Auckland - Pukekohe	Ruth Lam	09 233 4425	021 042 6586
Hamilton	Paul Chin	07 853 9368	021 791 005
Palmerston North	Elizabeth Leong	06 357 0051
Hawkes Bay - Havelock North	Mike Wong	06 877 5085	022 059 4595
Wellington - Miramar	Gordon Wu	04 388 3560	027 487 5314
Christchurch	Lois Yee		022 564 7933
Ashburton	Carolyn King	03 308 7022	021 258 1568
Dunedin - City	Michael Young	03 474 0047	021 258 1568
Dunedin - Walton Park	Phil. Shum	03 488 1123
Gisborne	Ying Foon		021 994 814