Many Britons Seek To Emigrate

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30214, 20 August 1963, Page 13

Many Britons Seek To Emigrate

iSpecw) Correspondent N Z P A.)

LONDON. August 19 Commonwealth countries looking to Britain for additions to their sparse populations should find it easy to get the number of migrants they want, says the “Financial Times.” discussing “queues” of prospective emigrants at manv of the London offices of Commonwealth countries as well as at the United States Embassy The newspaper suegestr -hat 1963 may well see more people leaving Britain for good than 1957, the year after

Suez, "wiiesi an unprecedented flood swept out ” It says Australia House olone has had more than 145.000 serious applications for assisted passages during the first seven months this year, compared with 45 000 for the same period m 1962 Of this total perhaps half would eventually make the trip New Zealand House too had had a flood of inquiries since January—an average of •00 lefers daily during the first four months of ’he year Between April, 1962. and March. 1963 more than 10.000 people had made their own unassisted way to New Zea-

land and 4200 had been given kse.sted passage. “It is the shipping position "hat worries Australians and New Zealanders most. They could do with many more berths than are avatteble,” olie "Financal Times" says In 1961, 123.000 people had left Britain by sea, 61 per cent, of them to the four main Commonwealth receivng countries. 19 per cent to other Commonwealth countries and 20 per cent, to foreign countries, it says And the net losses (set against mmigraotst were 661 teachers, 13 doctors. 944 nurses, 163 professional engineers and 258 satentastß.