The poll tax and Chinese New Zealanders

From 1881 to 1944 New Zealand had an ethnically targeted tax on all Chinese migrants. Called the poll tax, it is the most well-known of New Zealand’s anti-Chinese laws. In 2002 the New Zealand Government formally apologised for the discriminatory legislation. Please click through the 12 slides below to find out more about this tax. Resource slides provided by the Auckland Lantern Festival.