Selina Hassan

[4][5] In 1902 or 1903 the family made significant profits from the mine and travelled with their children to Hong Kong in 1905; while there Hassan's youngest sister Florence died and so did her father.

[1] Back in Darwin Hassan worked to care for her elderly grandmother, Sarah Hang Gong, who was paralyzed while her mother ran a small shop offering food and drinks including tripe soup on Cavanagh Street.

[8] Hassan's husband died suddenly of a stroke in 1929, at the age of 53, when the children were young and he left he the majority of his estate, including extensive property holdings on Cavenagh Street.

[1][12][13] Hassan was also an active member of the Kuomintang branch in Darwin and she served as secretary in 1930 and, in 1932 when she presented an address at a banquet for WP Chen, the consul-general for China in Australia, she praised the party for their comparatively progressive views about the role of women in society.

[17] They were ultimately forced to stay there during the Japanese occupation but avoided some of the worst treatment inflicted on the Chinese population as they were living within the Malay Quarter.