Dr Manying Ip
Dinkum Aliens :They also served
In spite of their early arrival the the Chinese remained sojourners in New Zealand. From 1881 onwards, the Chinese were singled out as undesirable aliens and subjected to various discriminatory laws, regulations and administrative measures aimed at limiting their number. Among these were the poll-tax, tonnage ratio, thumb-printing and the literacy test.
Very few Chinese women were allowed to come, and accordingly there were few local-born Chinese babies. The Chinese were barred from naturalisation from 1908 until 1952.
In spite of their marginalised status, the hostile social climate, and their very small number (2,943 in the 1936 census), patriotic Chinese New Zealanders, mostly local-born, served in the Air Force, Army and the Home Guard............
Read more at Stevenyoung.co.nz, there's also a short list of some of the Kiwi Asians that fought in WW2. There's a lot of interesting posts on the site.
Read more about Asian ANZACs here.
Join the Asian ANZACs page.
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