Timeline

  • Gaming Act outlawed puckapoo and fan-tan two chinese games of chance.

  • poll tax law which made every chinese person pay a ten pound tax

  • The poll tax was increased by 100 pounds

  • The old age pension act excluded naturalised chinese.

  • English reading test for 'Alien' which included chinese.

  • Chinese prevented from becoming naturalised citizens.

    Chinese prevented from becoming naturalised citizens.
  • War refugees including chinese allowed to come on a temporary basis. tax on chinese abolished

  • Immigrations review permitted chinese with professional qualifications to come to new zealand.