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Chinese immigration into New Zealand

  • Gaming act outlaw puckapoo and fan-tan two chinese games of chance

  • The poll tax was increased to a hundred pounds

  • The old age pension act exclude naturlised chinese

  • Chinese prevent from becoming naturalised citizens

  • war refugees inincluding chinese, allowed to come on a temporart basis. tax on chinese abolished

  • no more temporary permits or student visas issue to chinese although chinese men were permitted to bring their immediate family to new zealand

  • Immigration reveiw permitted chinese with professional qualification to come to new zealand

  • english language test and the linking of residency with tax payment once again restricting the number of chinese who wereable to qualify as immigrants

  • english language test and the linking of residency with tax payment once again restricting the number of chinese who wereable to qualify as immigrants