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Chinese Immigration to NZ

By Nihmot

  • 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 excluding naturalised Chinese

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

  • English Reading test fro 'Aliens' which included Chinese

  • Chinese prevented from becoming naturalised citizens

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

  • Immigration Resteiction Act which required all aliens to apply from a permit to come amd only the Minister of Customs could decide who was allowed to come as permanent residents

  • 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 feom using their children as unpaid workers

    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 feom using their children as unpaid workers

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

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

    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