New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

NANCY’S PLUM LIFE ‘I’m the chook that keeps going’

“I was born in Canton (Guangzhou), China. I came to New Zealand in the hold of a cargo ship with my mother, older sister and younger brother. I guess we were refugees. My father and grandfather had come to New Zealand earlier, but in 1939, when the Japanese invaded China, they decided they would bring the rest of the family out.

The family had a market garden in Pukekohe, but Dad and Granddad had a bit of a disagreement, and

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