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Story: Ethnic and religious intolerance

Pacific factory workers

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Pacific factory workers

A group of Pacific people, mainly Samoans, celebrate Christmas with their bosses in an Auckland factory in 1975. Over the preceding decade the expansion of manufacturing and the need for labour, especially in the Auckland region, had led to a major influx of people from the Pacific Islands.

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: 19 December 1975

by Keith Waldegrave

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Paul Spoonley, Ethnic and religious intolerance – Intolerance towards Pacific migrants, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28180/pacific-factory-workers (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Paul Spoonley, published 17 February 2011.