Keywords: Queensland State Archives 1893 Chinese canegrowers planting sugar cane near Cairns c 1878.png en Chinese canegrowers planting sugar cane near Cairns <br /> Caption references Hop Wah plantation may also be Hambledon The Hop Wah syndicate consisted of Chinese workers who grew cane cotton and other crops on a plantation of 600 acres selected by Andrew Leon a prominent Chinese business man 1878 http //www archivessearch qld gov au/Image/DigitalImageDetails aspx ImageId 1893 Preferred citation Queensland State Archives Digital Image ID 1893 ID label 1098175 http //www archivessearch qld gov au/Search/AgencyDetails aspx AgencyID 2024 Premier and Chief Secretary's Department State Public Relations Bureau Photographic Unit en Copyright expired Information field Decade 1870-1879 Information field Place en Cairns Region Information field Keywords en Chinese Australians Information field Material Type en Photographic material Information field Type en Image PD-Australia QSA media uploaded by User 99of9 Photographic material from the Queensland State Archives Queensland in the 1870s Farms in Queensland Sugar cane in Queensland History of Cairns Chinese Australians Sugar cane farming in Queensland |