Market garden, Darley
Date Published
: market gardening
: Adelaide
: Adelaide
: 1905
Chinese market gardeners in Darley area of Campbelltown, Adelaide.
Title deed showing land leased to two Chinese men.
Market garden lease
Ah Yeck and Quong Chung are listed as leasing Section 334 Block 1 in Darley (Paradise) from February 1905 to July 1906. This was prime market gardening land on the banks of the River Torrens. (Certificate of Title) CT 289 / 239.
Source: Email correspondence with Helen Thiselton Local History Officer, the City of Campbelltown (dated 14 Dec 2023)
A number of Chinamen gave evidence that defendants came into their garden at Paradise on the evening in question, and, after damaging a lot of cabbages and turnips, they broke the windows of the house. On Le Gong going out to remonstrate with, them they knocked him down and pelted him with stones. Defendants were ordered to pay 12s. each damage, and £5 each for the assault; £7 7s. in all.
News report on the court case concerning Le Gong and “a number of Chinamen” who were accosted on their market garden at Paradise in 1882.
Adelaide Observer, Saturday 8 April, 1882, p. 28.
This is another indication that there was a Chinese community in the Campbelltown area during the 1880s.
Source: Email correspondence with Helen Thiselton Local History Officer, the City of Campbelltown (dated 19 Dec 2023)
