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White New Zealand League pamphlet

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White New Zealand League pamphlet

The White New Zealand League was set up in 1926 to campaign against the presence of Asians in New Zealand. This pamphlet argues that a 'white New Zealand' was the nation's inheritance and it should be maintained for 'your children's children and the Empire'.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: White N.Z. League. <i>Citizens of the future are the children of today</i>. Auckland: 1926

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Paul Spoonley, Ethnic and religious intolerance – Intolerance towards Asians, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/28179/white-new-zealand-league-pamphlet (accessed 13 June 2026).

Story by Paul Spoonley, published 17 February 2011.