Chinese Immigration

By wilsonto14

  • Gaming Act outlawed puckapoo and fan-tan two Chinese games of chance.

  • The Poll Tax was increased to a hundred pounds.

  • The Old Age Pensions Act excluded naturalised Chinese.

  • Immigration Restriction Act which along with excluding criminals, the insane and people with infectious diseases also excluded Chinese.

  • Shops and Offices Act stated that only British subjects could decide on the opening hours of shops and offices in each district.

  • English Reading test for 'Aliens' which included Chinese.

    English Reading test for 'Aliens' which included Chinese.

  • Chinese prevented from becoming naturalised citizens.

  • Factories Act limited the hours that laundries employing more than two people could be open. This affected Chinese laundries as most of them employed more than two workers.

    Factories Act limited the hours that laundries employing more than two people could be open. This affected Chinese laundries as most of them employed more than two workers.

  • War refugees, including Chinese, allowed to come on a temporary basis. Tax on Chinese abolished.

  • Immigration review permitted Chinese with professional qualifications to come to New Zealand.

  • Business Immigration policy selected immigrants on their personal qualities and not on their race.

  • 1996 English language test and the linking of residency with tax payments once again restricted the numbers of Chinese who were able to qualify as immigrants.

    1996 English language test and the linking of residency with tax payments once again restricted the numbers of Chinese who were able to qualify as immigrants.