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Gaming act outlawed puckapoo and fan-tan twot chinese games of chance
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poll tax was increased to a hundred pounds.
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immigration restriction act which along with excluding criminals, the insane and people with infectious diseases also excluded chinese.
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english reading test for 'aliens' which included chinese.
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Chinese prevented from becoming naturalised citizens
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factories act imeted the hours that laundries employing more than two people cold be open. this affected chinese laudries as most of them employed more than two workers.
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immigration restriction act which required all aliens to to apply for a permit to come and only the minister of customs could decide who was allowed to come as permanant resients
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amendment to the shops and offices act stated that all people working in fruit ahops apart from the owner and his/her spouse had to be paid the basic wage. This stopped chinese fruiterers from using their children as unpaid workers.
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immigration review permitted chinese with professional qualifications to come to new zealand.