INFLUX FROM GERMANY

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23318, 2 May 1941, Page 8

INFLUX FROM GERMANY

IMMIGRATION 'TO NEW ZEALAND MORE CHINESE ARRIVE How greatly immigration to New Zealand from Germany (including Austria) has increased in the last few years is shown in the latest report on Population of Buildings issued by the Census and Statistics Department. Tor the year ended on March 31, 1940, the number of German Immigrants / intending permanent residence in New Zealand was 423. which was 12 times the average (37) for the'’five years 1933-38. In addition the arrivals included 148 others who were described as tourists (47). on business (18), officials (6). or theatrical, etc. (32). Departures numbered 164. v A total of 859 persons of German nationality came to New Zealand to settle permanently between January, 1933, and March, 1940. Of these nearly four-fifths arrived In the two'years between March, 1938, and March, 1940. At the same time there has been a considerable increase in the number, of Chinese immigrants. The number in 1939-40 was 680, compared with 127 in the previous year, or 17 times the 1933-38 yearly average of 41. Of the 680 Chinese. 245 were women over the age of 15, and 121 were girls under 15; “The outstanding feature Of the external migration for 1930-40 has been the arrival of a large number of immigrants of foreign nationality .who intend permanent residence in the Dominion,” states the report. “The unsettled state of Europe and the treatment of certain racial minorities has resulted in the emigration of numbers of these to countries where they are not subject to the same restrictions*. A considerable number of these refugees has arrived in New Zealand' during recent years, but it is impossible to distinguish them from other immigrants. "Approximately 96 per cent, of the Chinese arrivals were persons arriving on temporary permits for a stay of one year or more, and by Chinese residents of New Zealand returning after an absence of more than a year, 11 states the report. “For statistical purposes both these classes of people are treated as immigrants intending permanent residence;" . Foreign countries provided a yearly average of only 252 immigrants from 1933 to 1938. The number increased in 1038-1939 to 746, and in, 1939-40 to 1659. Of all these foreign immigrants Slightly more than half were women. Czech. Hungarian,; Swiss, Danish, and Jugoslav immigrants have also increased greatly in numbers. The most notable change Czechoslovakia with an increase from an average of one person suddenly to 102 in 1939-40. Jugoslavs, with an average of 58, increased to 173 in 1938-39, with 85 in the following year. Hungarians (averSone person) Increased to 46 in -40, Danes (average four) to 23, Swiss (average lour) to 39,. and Poles (average 15) to 29. Italians (average 16) increased to 20 in 1038-30, but dedined to the average again in 1939-40,