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Gaming Act outlawed puckapoo and fan-tan two chinese games of chance
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Poll Tax Law made every chinese person pay a ten pound tax. (and the 1888 amd 1896 amedments)
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The Poll Tax was increased to a hundred pounds.
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The Old Age Pensions Act excluded naturalised Chinese
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Immigration Rescriction Act which along with excluding criminals, the insane and people with infectious diseases also excluded Chinese
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Shops and Offices Act stated that only British subjects could decide on the opening hours of shops and offices in each district
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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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War refugees, including Chinese, allowed to come on a temporary basis. Tax on chinese abolished.
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No more temporary permits or student visas issued to chinese although chinese men were permitted to bring their immediate family to New Zealand
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Immigration review permitted chinese with professional qualifications to come to New Zealand.
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Business Immigration policy selected immigrants on their personal qualities and not on their race
