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Gaming act outlawed puckapoo and fan-tan two chinese games of chance
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The poll tax was increasded to a hundred pounds.
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The od age pensions act exclued naturalised Chinese
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Immigraiton restriction act which along with excluding crimimals, the insane and people with infectiond diseases also excluded Chinese.
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English reading test for 'Aliens' which innclued Chinese
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Chinese prevented from becoming naturalised Citizens
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Factories act limited the hours that laundries employing more then two people could be open. This affected Chinese laundries as most of them employed more then two workers
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Immigration restricted act which required all aliens to apply for a permit to come and only the minisiter of customs could decide who was allowed to come as perminanent residents.
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Amendment to the shops and offices act stated that all people working in fruit shps apart from the owner and his/her spouse had to paid the basic wage. This stopped chinese fruiterers from using their children as unpaid workers.
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War refugees, including Chinese, allowed to come on a temprray basis. Tax on Chinese aboloshed.
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Immigration review permitted Chinese with professional qualifications to come to New Zeland.
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Business immaigraiton policy selected immigrations on their person qualitites and not on their race.