What happened The epicentre of the segregation was in the South Auckland town of Pukekohe, where for much of the 1920s to the early ‘60s, Māori were not allowed upstairs at the cinema or to enter dairies. Most barbers refused to cut their hair, taxi drivers would not pick them up, and on the bus to Auckland, they were forced to stand for a white passenger if the seats got full. From 1952 to 1964, the Pukekohe Māori-only school was the only racially segregated school in the history of the country. The previous school had separate toilets for Māori. Monday through Thursday, European and Asian pupils were allowed into the swimming baths; Māori were only let in on Fridays – then they changed the dirty water.
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