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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 621, 16 June 1891, Page 2

THE large exodus from New Zealand last month has naturally caused appre. henston in many minds, and there is much speculation as to the real cause of so many people leaving our shores. A good deal has been written on the subject, some of the productions being of a very gloomy nature. But there is one point which seems to have been entirely overlooked in dealing with the effect on the country. Hundreds of those who have gone to Australia are steady, industrious men and women who have gone to the other side as beadwinners, and who send a large portion of their earnings back to New Zealand. When trying to make a calculation of how the colony is being affected by its depletion of population a substantial allowance in favor of the colony should be made in regard to wage-earners who have still the dearest ties with New Zealand. When the holidays come round, too, it is certain that a great many New Zealanders who have been tempted by the prospects in the other colonies will take a holiday trip through the land of their birth, and thus leave a good deal of spare cash in the colony.