Chinese Immigration to NZ

By hinaki1

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

  • Poll tax law qhich made every Chinese person pay a ten pund tax. (and the 1888 and 1896 amendments)

  • The poll tax was increased to a hundred pounds

    The poll tax was increased to a hundred pounds

  • The old age Pensions act excluded naturalised Chinese

    The old age Pensions act excluded naturalised Chinese

  • Shearers Accommodation act stated that Chinese in the industry were to have separate accommodation from the rest of the employees

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

  • Shops and offices Act stated the 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 emplying more than two people could be open. This affected Chinese laundries as most of them employed more than two workers

  • 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 the come as permanent residents

  • Amendment to the shops & Offices Act stated that all people working in fruit shops apary 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

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

  • no more temporary permits or student visas issued to Chinese although Chinese men were permitted to bring their immediate family to NZ

  • Immigration review permitted Chinese with professional qualifications to come to NZ

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

  • English language test and the linking of residencys with tax payments once again restricted the numbers of chinese whoo were able to qualify as immigrants

  • English language test and the linking of residencys with tax payments once again restricted the numbers of chinese whoo were able to qualify as immigrants