There is a growing movement to document local Chinese history. Here are two recent papers:

UNSMELTERED GOLD, UNCUT JADE.: SOURCES AND RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF HISTORY OF CHINESE NEW ZEALANDERS
Victoria University of Wellington Stout Research Centre Seminars
Chinese New Zealand March-June 2003
Nigel Murphy & Lynette Shum

REMEMBERING HAINING STREET: With both eyes open

Lynette Shum - 2003

Here is a sneak preview of Laws and Policies relating to the Chinese in New Zealand by Nigel Murphy commissioned by the New Zealand Chinese Association

Read about the proposed History of the West Coast Chinese to be published by the West Coast Historical & Mechanical Society (Shantytown)  in their Newsletters.

Julia Bradshaw - curator and researcher, 2007

In addition work is being done by:

Allen and Kitty Chang - recording mainly family histories

Wong Liu Shueng and others- organising a Chinese Oral History Association in Auckland and Welliington

Henry Chan - researching the history of Tung Jung people in New Zealand and Australia

Watch this space.