Audio
Tongan overstayers
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- Title
- Tongan overstayers
- Content partner
- Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
- Collection
- Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
- Description
In the 1960s and 1970s many Tongans stayed on beyond their three-month work permit. In 1974 the New Zealand government announced an amnesty: they were to return to Tonga by a set time or be arrested. In this interview the Tongan lawyer Clive Edwards discusses the panic caused by this announcement. Eventually the police began making dawn raids on the overstayers. The flyer records a protest in March, 1974, following one of the first dawn raids.
- Format
- Audio
- Date created
- 4 March 2009
- Contributing partner
- Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau
- URL
- https://teara.govt.nz/en/speech/3905/tongan-overstayers
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http://www.teara.govt.nz/copyright, Crown Copyright administered through the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga. All text licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 New Zealand Licence unless otherwise stated. Commercial re-use may be allowed on request. All non-text content is subject to specific conditions. Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau Reference: Race - New Zealand Issues Record ID 31 Sound file from Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, Radio New Zealand collection. Any re-use of this audio is a breach of copyright. To request a copy of the recording, contact Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (Overstayers panic over amnesty misunderstanding/Reference number MR880121). Permission of Auckland City Libraries Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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