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Gaming act outlawed puckapoo and fan-two Chinese games of chance
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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 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 inlcuded Chinese
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Chinese prevented from becoming naturalised citizens
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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
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Immigration Restriction Act which required all aliens to apply for a permit to come and only the Minister of Customs could decide who was allowed to come as permanent residents.
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Amendment to the Shops and Offices Act stated that all people working in fruit shops 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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war refugees, including Chinese, allowed to come on a temporary basis. Tax on Chinese abloished
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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