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Grave injustices

DOCUMENTARY NZ: NO MĀORI ALLOWED, TVNZ 1,

Tuesday, October 18, 8.30pm

Not many New Zealanders know – or remember – the story of Pukekohe’s “colour bar”. We have let slip the stories of its segregated schools, the cinema where Māori could sit only downstairs, the shops they were forbidden to enter and the public pool Māori children could swim in only on Friday afternoons,

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