More Winter Tourists
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Nov. 5. Nearly 6500 more tourists came to New Zealand between April 1 and September 30 this year than in the same period last year, according to the Department of Statistics. Apart from passengers on cruise ships. 28,335 tourists came here in the six-month period, compared with 21,900 last winter. This was a 29 per cent increase. There were fewer immi-
grants in the period from April to September of this year than in the same six months of 1966. This year’s figure dropped by 1260 from 16,996 to 15,736. In the same period, nearly 2800 more people left New
Zealand in 1967 than did in 1966. In the six months, 12,036 people left permanently (for 12 months or more), while 9253 left permanently in the 1966 period. The net gain in New Zealand’s population in the 1967 six-month period was 3700, compared with 7743 in the corresponding six months of 1966.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31520, 7 November 1967, Page 11
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