THE EMIGRATION PROBLEM.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2577, 11 August 1909, Page 2

THE EMIGRATION PROBLEM.

FIGURES AND PACTS. Before Sir Joseph Ward left the Dominion to attend the Naval Conference he dealt with the emigration problem, quoting the official returns of arrivals and departures in order to show that the population of New Zeaal.nd is being maintained. These are the figures given by tlie Prime Minister :

It was subsequently stated, upon the authority of the Tourist Department, that “there lias been nothing, as far as the Tourist Department is aware, to show that tho quarter ended June 30 will show any more than, the normal ebb and flow of population.” But the official figures for June, unfortunately, entirely upset this cheerful prognostication. They are: 1909. Arrivals. Departures. June. 1,927 2,671 The completed returns for the first six months of the yea)-' are: Arrivals in the Dominion *••• 20,046 from the Dominion 20,112 Excess of departures 66 This may not appear, at first sight, to be a Very alarming table, but if it is borne in mind that for the whole of the half-year passenger vessels from tlie United Kingdom have been regularly arriving, loaded with immigrants, thousands of whom have entered the Dominion with the intention of settling among us, it is. evident that the nominally small excess of. departures has a very serious meaning. It is impossible to hide the fact that thousands of our best workers are leaving our ports to seek employment in Australia. —New Zealand “Herald.”

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1909. Arrivals. Departures. January ... 5,822 2.233 February ... 4,141 2,857 March ... 3,347 4,785 April ... 2,372 4,015 May ... 2,437 3,551 18,119 17,441