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Gaming act outlawed puckapoo and fan-tan two chinese games of chance
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Immigration Restrication Act which along with excluding criminals, the insane and people with infectious diseases also excluded chinese.
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shops and offices act stated that only British subjects could decide on the opening hours of shops and offices in each district
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English Reading test for 'Aliens' which included 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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Amendment to the shops and office act staed 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 fruiteres from using their childreb as unpaid workers.
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war refugees,including allowed to come on a temporary basis. Tax on chinese abolished
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English language test and the linking of the residency with tax payments once again restricted the numbers of chinese who were able to qualify as immigrants
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Immigration review permitted chinese with professional qualifications to come to New Zealand
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The old age pensions act excluded naturalised chinese.
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Business immigration policy selected immigrants on their personal qualities and not on their race