"BLEEDING TO DEATH."
(To the Editor.) Sir,—With reference to Sir John Findlay's statement that Scotland is bleeding to death in losing 20,000 people annually, I 'Consider his remarks peculiarly onesided. In Saturday's " Star " I see that 2SS9 people left New Zealand in July. Scotland has a population about iivo times that of New Zealand, and at the above rate the departures from New Zealand in a year would come to 114,068. Multiply this by five and we get 173,340 annually. Now on a population basis it is New Zealand that is bleeding to death, and that at eight and a-half times the speed allotted to Scotland. If I remember rightly, Sir John wanted to know where all the Scotch emigrants were going. All I can say is that I hope few of then: will be misguided and so land in New Zealand. In this connecI may add that we are a family of eight who evidently were counted in the departures from Scotland in 190G. —I am, etc., "A CANNY SCOT."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 216, 11 September 1911, Page 7
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