RECORD YEAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 200, 24 August 1937, Page 17

RECORD YEAR.

IMMIGRANTS TO SOUTH AFRICA MANY FROM GERMANY. JOHANNESBURG, July 20. South Africa attracted a record number of immigrants last year. Figures show that 10,840 Europeans came to settle in the Union. Of this total 3851 were from other parts of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Germans and Hollanders dominated the immigration figures. Arrivals from Germany totalled 3431, as compared with 479 in 1932, and from Holland arrivals numbered 2058. Five Turks, two Spaniards, nine Finns, nine Rumanians, 268 Lithuanians, 172 Poles, 221 Portuguese, 159 Italians, 166 Austrians, 126 Americans and 18' Russians were among the remaining Union settlers. Emigrants from the Union numbered 2716 during 1936. Of these 2385 were British subjects. Ninety Germans and 63 Hollanders went back to their home countries.

Practically all occupations are represented by the immigrants. British immigrants included 418. people who gave their occupation as industrial, 243 as commercial and 239 as professional. From the Netherlands the industrial group numbered 863 as compared with 168 commercial and 92 _ professional people. Arrivals from Germany included 709 commercial, 144 professional and 546 industrial people. • The Department of Census says that the net gain in European subjects as the result of immigration during 1936 was 8124. British-born European immigrants numbered 3477 and emigrants 2331, a net gain to the Union of 1146. Of 7259 European foreign immigrants, 920 were born in countries from which immigration ie now restricted. : • ■