Sun Tong Lee's Sydney Branch Store, Gulgong

1872
Glass photonegative

Many goldfield stores were notorious for price gouging, but not all. The D70, 26 July 1873, observed:

It is astonishing to many how low prices are in the drapery and grocery lines, as many articles are sold only a shade over Sydney prices, and this can only be accounted for by the Iarge stocks kept by the two Chinese firms, On Hing and Company, and Sun Tong, Lee, and Company …