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During the exodus of young men from Southern China during the 19th Century to find work opportunities in other countries, many travelled from Guangdong Province (previously known as Canton) to New Guinea by trading ships. New Guinea became home to many Overseas Chinese where many of the young men who arrived in those early days worked as labourers in the plantations.

Once established, the men sent for their wives to settle here, and before long their enterprising manner set up trade stores over many parts of New Guinea. Within the next 100 years they became entrepreneurs in their own right trading with each other and the local people of New Guinea. No Chinese were allowed to settle in Papua during those early days.

During WWII, many within the Chinese community aided the Allied Forces with the New Guinea locals to defeat the Japanese in the townships of Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Kavieng, Bougainville and throughout the New Guinea Islands.

Soon after the war, New Guinea (a British Protectorate) joined the Territory of Papua to become the Territory of Papua New Guinea and administered by Australian Government; PNG as it was then fondly known to all who had dealings with the residents. The PNG Chinese were then able to settle in Papua and freely travel to Australia and across to the other Pacific Islands.

By the early 1970s PNG was given self-government by the Australian Administration to then become independent as a sovereign nation in 1975. Many PNG Chinese were able to emigrate to Australia and throughout the South Pacific Islands with the wealth they accumulated since their settlement in Papua New Guinea.

One of the clans that has established itself in as many years in PNG is the family Seeto. The Seeto surname has become synonymous within Papua New Guinea to become, as they say, "as common as Smith".

In the book "Golden Gateway", author James Sinclair documented much of the PNG Chinese history in New Guinea during the early 1900s. In another book "The Chinese in Papua New Guinea 1880 - 1980" by Dr. David Y.H. Wu tells of the earlier years of Overseas Chinese settlement in PNG.