POPULATION STATISTICS.
t ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. 1 ..If .Newi Zealand depended for its increase- 0/ 5 population- on.the .excess.of nfriyals -over dels part'urcs 'it :..ivoiild: not. fare so,.well as most people , imagine.'. From time to- time'i '•* :big f Wliito. Star .or New Zealand Sliinpiu?. Com- '• party's- liner comes into port full of- im'mij. grants,-.which would lead one. to imagine that wo lire'Raining-population from iieyoiid the ■■ sm at.a'"Breat'.rate, 'but cold statistics; arc,' " like-facts, obstinate things, arid\thc Rcgistrnr--1 General's .figures must •'■bo-, respected., -The - undermentioned table, giving the arrivals and 1 departures for each month 'of- last'year, shows , that the net. gain in population for 1907 'was e' 5730-only that, and nothing more. . This ine creaso ,'is healthy enough in . its ■ way, but it. fall? short of what., most-people .imagine our ' accretions from overseas to do. Still, the ! figures are interesting:'—'" ' ' j Month. '' , - 'Total Total !i. ■ • 'Arrivals. Departures; January- ... ... ....•("88 2172 " February ... ; ... , ... . 3010 317G' 1 • ■ March ■' — • ... ... -2988 45.15 ApHl ... 215(5 ■ 3788 ' ? • May ' ... ... ... 1988 • . 3130 0 " June 1 .. ... . 1878 . 2201 3 July ■ ... ....' ' ... 1!)08 2119 . 0 August 25t0 ■ 17.11 , September ... ... 2315 ' 1831 October 3590 1780 Novemher 365R 1590 r December IGSI 229G c Totals 3(5,108 30,378 j There was a good deal said in Sydney re- ' cently as lo the manner in which Australia was capturing Now Hollanders for settlement., s anil the boast was loudly made that they wore f getting more froni lis than we were getting i- from them. Statistics prepared hv the Regisn trnr-Gener.il (Mr. E. J. von Dadelsr.cri) give' 0 the nnniher of arrivals from Australian States r last, year as 2(i,911i, and 1 lie departures for „ the Commonwealth as 25,818—ntt gain to New r /,«>land, 1058. 'j During the past year. 255 Chinese arrived in '1 New Zealand (from Australia) anil 182 de- - nartrtd, making an '•"•■•l'nEc of 7i) in • our a Ciiintie copulation.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 97, 17 January 1908, Page 8
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306POPULATION STATISTICS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 97, 17 January 1908, Page 8
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