Migrants
Sir, —Under the heading “Call for boost in immigration” (February 11) it was stated that New Zealand has lost about 30,000 people each year for the last five years by migration. This figure tends to mislead because it does not specify that it is the net loss, i.e., the difference between our departees and the immigrants. For instance, figures issued by the Statistics Department showed that, to August 1985, 50,559 of our people left the country and 35,323 people entered. Similarly, the department’s figures for the following year showed 60,028 people leaving and 37,994 arriving. As social and political conditions have grossly deteriorated since those two years, when 110,000 were lost, it is probable that, since coming to power, this Government has driven out not
less than a quarter of a million of those enterprising and ambitious Kiwis who would vote against it.—Yours, etc., JOHN H. LENCH. February 12, 1989.
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