POPULATION GAINS.
-—-♦- DRIFT TO SOUTH ISLAND. (PEESS ASSOCIATION TZLEGBAX.) V ' WELLINGTON, December 7. An outstanding fact of the population movement of 1922, according to a statistical report, which, has been issued by the Government Statistician, was tne nett loss by the North Island, of several thousand persons who migrated temporarily or otnerwise to the (South Island. For a period of years the drift of population tended gteadily, to the North, and this readjustment in 1922 indicates that the post-war depression of 1921 and 1922 was less felt in the South than in the North. '• According to the figures, the movement of population between one island and the other during 1922 shows that the South Island gained ten thousand people. That is, ten thousand more people went from the North to the South than went from the South to the North. Politically, the significance of the figures is their possible effect on Parliamentary representation, as for a number oi years past the South Island has been steadily losing seate to the North on a population basis.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17941, 8 December 1923, Page 13
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