SEW HOY, CHARLES (1837-1901) was born in Canton, and as a young man went to San Francisco. In the fifties he followed the gold rush to Victoria, where he was in business, and in 1869 he started business in Dunedin. He was always interested in mining, and was the promoter of the Sew Hoy Big Beach Co., whose success led directly to the first dredging boom in Otago. He later engaged in hydraulic sluicing, and was interested in the Nokomai Co., for whose operations water was brought a distance of 20 miles. Sew Hoy, who was an enterprising merchant and a generous contributor to benevolent objects, died on 22 Jul 1901.

Otago Daily Times, 23 Jul 1901.

Reference: Volume 2, page 146

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