{"id":2800,"date":"2021-10-29T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/?page_id=2800"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:59:57","slug":"tiy-sang-co","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/tiy-sang-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiy Sang &#038; Co"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This building on the corner of Ultimo Rd and Thomas St was at the beginning of the 20th century a major banana importer &#8211; Tiy Sang &amp; Co. Owned by the Wong Yee family who in the 1920s decided to transfer their capital to China and like others set up a Department store. The choice of location &#8211; Canton rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/39-kwok-family-mansion\/\">Hong Kong or Shanghai<\/a> &#8211; proved less profitable and the family returned to Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/31-s-s-changte-and-s-s-taiping\/\">return<\/a> of a Chinese Australian family brought them within the jurisdiction of the White Australia policy and its <a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/1-certificate-exempting-from-dictation-test\/\">Dictation Test<\/a>. However, middle class status perhaps assisted them and the family &#8211; including the mother of future Purple Wiggle <a href=\"https:\/\/watch.plex.tv\/en-GB\/show\/who-do-you-think-you-are-au\/season\/12\/episode\/4\">Jeff Fatt<\/a> &#8211; were able to settle back in the land of their birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"818\" src=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/31b-Wong-Yee-familiy-1024x818.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/31b-Wong-Yee-familiy-1024x818.png 1024w, https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/31b-Wong-Yee-familiy-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/31b-Wong-Yee-familiy-768x613.png 768w, https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/31b-Wong-Yee-familiy.png 1342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Wong Yee Family: &#8220;<em>Chinese Family Prohibited from Landing&#8221; ran the headline. L-R\u00a0 Mary, David, Rose, Helen (little girl), Norma (Jeff Fatt, the Purple Wiggle\u2019s mum), Betty, Edward (Father of Barry Wong, informant).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This building on the corner of Ultimo Rd and Thomas St was at the beginning of the 20th century a major banana importer &#8211; Tiy Sang &amp; Co. Owned by the Wong Yee family who in the 1920s decided to transfer their capital to China and like others set up a Department store. The choice &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/tiy-sang-co\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tiy Sang &#038; Co&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2800","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4411,"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2800\/revisions\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinozhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}