Don Tong (?)-9/1936.

Chinese Miner Died In Lonely Whare.

Press Association —Copyright. Invercargill, September 9. Don Tong, a Chinese aged 42, who had been employed by the Nokomai Goldmining Company since last November was found dead late last night in his whare in a lonely spot in the back country near Garston. He was at work on September 3, but he complained of illness and returned to his whare where he lived alone during the past week. He was visited by some of his countrymen who urged him to see a doctor but it is stated that he declined to do so. 

Ernest Mong, miner at Nokomai, visited the hut yesterday and found it securely locked. On looking through the window he saw Tong's body on the floor. The matter was reported to the police at Lumsden and at 11 pm yesterday Constable H. J. Thompson made an arduous journey up the face of a cliff to Tong's whare into which he forced an entry to find the Chinese dead. -Stratford Evening Post, 19/9/1936.

Garston Cemetery.