By the end of the Nineteenth Century, the Otago goldfields had been depleted, and many immigrant Chinese moved north to urban centres like Wellington. In the early 1900s, Haining Street had a terrible reputation as a slum and den of iniquity. To non-Chinese New Zealanders, Haining Street symbolised the Yellow Peril, and their fear of China and things Chinese. Non-Chinese school children were told that they they risked being boiled and made into preserved heads if they ventured into narrow street. Consequently, it was an act of great daring to sprint down the street.
The most notorious incident in Haining Street was the 1905 murder of Joe Kum Yung by Lionel Terry, a psychologically disturbed and a vehement hater of the Chinese. Joe Kum Yung was a penniless semi-invalid almost 70 years of age, who had spent most of his life mining for gold in Westland. Shot through the head, Kum Yung died soon afterwards in hospital. The next day Terry surrendered to the police, handing in his revolver and a copy of his anti-asian pamphlets to explain his crime. His trial aroused tremendous interest in New Zealand and overseas. On 27 November, he was sentenced to death by the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, but two days later his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
You will need to visit two sites on Haining Street to get the information you need to find the cache.
Information sign
A=Sum of digits in day in August (below bottom picture)
B=3rd digit in year that Chinese Mission Hall was built
C=Number of letters in name of Chinese gambling game minus 4
Memorial plaque (look down!)
D=Sum of digits in day in September
E=Number of letters in name of county Joe Kum Yung was born
F=Sum of first and last digit of centenary year
Checksum = 30
The cache can be found at S41 17.ABC, E174 46.DEF
The cache is a camoed pill bottle containing only a log book, so you will need to bring your own pen.