NEED FOR MIGRANTS
“Net Gain Too Small”
<N.Z Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 2. A steady immigration programme was necessary for economic growth, improved productivity and greater wealth, the president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce (Mr G. Hawley) said today.
Mr Hawley said there wae no real evidence that immigration was reducing employment opportunities, as the president of the Federation of Labour (Mr F. P. Walsh) claimed.
The comparatively small number of assisted immigrants brought to New Zealand in recent years was unlikely to have affected the unemployment rate. The council of the chamber received a report on immigration by Miss C. R. Barr, eco. nomic research officer of the Associated Chambers of Commerce.
Miss Barr said 11,633 working immigrants had arrived in New Zealand in the year 1961-62, but over the same period 9079 working residents left the country to take employment overseas
The net migration gain to the labour force of 2554 was too small a number to touch the root of the labour shortage problem—inflation.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30121, 3 May 1963, Page 12
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