No Maori allowed documentary

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Saw this last night; it was the first I've heard of this. How absolutely disgraceful that it was allowed to happen, & worse, continue for decades.

 https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/130075649/tvnz-documentary-no-mori-allowed-revisits-pukekohes-history-of-segregation




"Producer Reikura Kahi knows No M─üori Allowed will be confronting for many viewers but believes it is a story that needs telling.

The documentary turns the spotlight on Pukekohe and the South Auckland townÔÇÖs history of racism and segregation.

It reveals that from 1920 until the early 1960s, M─üori were barred from public toilets, segregated at the cinema and swimming baths, refused alcohol, haircuts and taxi rides, forced to stand for white bus passengers and barred from schools.

Kahi hopes the documentary sparks conversations ÔÇô a lot of conversations ÔÇô around the country.

ÔÇ£It took a lot of strength, and a lot of talking to their wh─ünau, to come to the realisation that this story is important and that it was important for them to finally find the strength to tell their story,ÔÇØ Kahi says, adding the women hadnÔÇÖt even told their wh─ünau much about what they had experienced.

It is the story of growing up in a town where white supremacists were so strongly supported they were able to force the local council to allow segregation.

In 1926, the White New Zealand League was incorporated in Pukekohe and Kahi says the Ku Klux Klan was also active in South Auckland at the time.

M─üori families were forced to live in dirt-floored shacks ÔÇô with no running water or plumbing ÔÇô on the edge of town, well away from European residents. Children, who regularly died from measles, diphtheria, whooping cough and tuberculosis, were buried in unmarked graves."