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Extract from Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Act 1919

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Extract from Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Act 1919

War intensified popular prejudices in New Zealand. This is an extract from an act which was passed in 1919 to restrict the immigration of ‘aliens’. The Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Act tried to prevent Germans, Austrians and ‘disaffected’ or ‘disloyal’ people entering New Zealand.

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Reference: New Zealand Statutes, 1919, pp. 160–4.

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Jock Phillips, History of immigration – Between the wars, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/document/2135/extract-from-undesirable-immigrants-exclusion-act-1919 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.