MIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA
EFFECT OF SHIPPING SHORTAGE
ESTIMATES WELL BELOW PROPOSED FIGURE
(Rec. 11 p.m.) CANBERRA, Jan. 16. Because of the shipping shortage, the figure of 70,000 migrants a year to Australia has already been drastically curtailed. Commonwealth Government estimates of arrivals for the next four years, supplied to a conference of State migration authorities by the Minister of Immigration (Mr A. Calwell), are as follows: in 1947, 2500 in migrant accommodation, 3250 intermediate, and 3500 first class, a total of 9250; in 1948, 12,600, 6000, and 8000, totalling 26,600; in 1949, 19,000,- 8000, and 11,000, totalling 38,000; in 1950, 22,000, 11,000, and 14,000, totalling 47,000. The High Commissioner for the United Kii-gdom in Australia (Mr E. J. Williams) said that while Britain was anxious to help, she did not want Australia to hand-pick specialists from essentia] industries. In Britain there were more than 100,000 former members of the Polish Army and Air Force, who were now without a country. Malta also had many British subjects who were eager to migrate.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25085, 17 January 1947, Page 7
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