Migration loss
PA Wellington • People who left New [Zealand for good or for a [year or more numbered 69,654 for the 12 months !to the end of March this year compared with 44,927 permanent and long-term [arrivals, a net loss to the country of 2*1,727. For the previous year, ■to the end of March, 1980, departures permanent and long-term (12 months or irme). numbered 76,024 a d arrivals 41,607 — a n ’ ’S o r "14,417. ’’’•sr the month of j ’l. ’9Bl, . there were 7 ! p* manent and longt I -. epartures and 3533 arrivals; In March, 1980, itbrre were 6244 departures and 3343 arrivals. <■. These provisional figures for 1981 were released vesterday by the Department of Statistics....
These figures, together with short-term arrivals and departures and through passengers, represent a net migration loss of 15,465 to population for the year ended March, 1981, compared with a loss of 22,299 for the previous year. The imbalance is made up by crew movements. Despite the net migration loss, an assistant director of immigration, Miss Joan Wiltshire, said immigration inquiries at New Zealand House in London were 6500 in March.
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