IMMIGRATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 633, 9 October 1909, Page 13

IMMIGRATION.

;•,;,. 'REPORT; FOR 1908-09. ' ;:.. :'•;■;,}':', '.;■ ':■ NUMBERS AND'£OST,\/. • V//'.:' ■; Among tho .reports laid.on.the : tablo of the House of 1 wasi _.; the ■' annual return relating. .to; tho/.'immigration/ that has. taken, place into; New .Zealand* from the. United Kingdom during; tho'-'ycar ' 1908-03. 'It shows that the. number of statute adults'who received passages, at reduced" rates .during the twelvo, months amounted ;tb'-«'.4Hli'' equalling-: .4953 souls. Those, it is stated, were.distributed over'. lorcy-seven trips' oi the. several' steamers coming: to. tho. Dominion—an average .of. 105 soiils lor each steamer.v Ton vessels saiied;,in J tno .quarter elided Juno 30, eleven in tho September quarter, . thirteen 'in ■ the /.December quarter, and thirteen in the-March quarter, 'I'he capital'of those':.who liad been assisted amounted. tb ..£96,055, "ind. in addition to. this a':.few- were : in receipt of small incomes which, totalled to a'year. The number of persons .that-..we're.'nominated, by: relatives'! in-.the Dominion during the; year-was/ 2289, - and -tho money received'from the nominators .towards th'e'-cost. of'the' passages amountedHo *818,484. Tho'High' 'Commissioner /repor.ts that .during the. past year'the number of people going to;Canadfi' diminished: owing, to: discouraging reports, and accordinglv the ;stream: of ipeo'ple,-leaving the .'United .Kingdom."was'-, diverted:; to pother colonies, and df these we no doubt obtained.a fall-''share; : ' Hence it, happened; that, starting '■ with the ,'s.s. lonic, which: left london for New. ■ Zealand-'■ in- .JuljV -1908,: the passenger-vessels for tho Dominion: 'have;'carried large-numbers of'full-payirig.passehgefs, who trusted'that in a country, like this ;they would find=themselves in,.a. ■:better,, position' : than'. that-.which-' they ,ocoup^:'ih,tho; United/ IflhgdbmV'The ma-; jority,.Of ■ .the: applicants',', at .the. High., Com-. .mission'er'si"office, /did: not .prbdeed: any' furr ther dr.-make formal .'application.- Nevertheless there-werb 2191 completed'applications-for re-duced-rato passages which were'declined by :tbe High Commissioner." '-Inspections are made uii,der theVHigh; .instructions ;bf 'the.-persons-who ; obtain,-passagesvat';reduced; fates upon every vessel. -The." London' office- : takes -no .action ; in regard .'to.' tbdsV ; who. • may > ,' be emigrating: and who: have 'made their: own ■arrangements; with /the shipping/ companies.'' The;hunibcr of persons who from the '..Unife'd Kingdom.during. th6:year ; arid who.had made, their, own arrangements with, tho' com-, .-panics /Was 7121. '.It 'might be mentioned that. ■ some-;:,of .them had'::appliedv<fpr '"roduced-ratb' passages, but, ■ as they,/were •, not-eligible;under: the-cbhditiohs - in-vogue,";: thoy: werS'' refused the concession.' : !Of,,thpse:,.who'; were refused ' thord. were. 332 .wives .and. 828; children J of, per-, sons'! who -had - , previously:-.arrived, ■ and, /finding employment, nominated their families for pas-, i sages', at' reduced rates.-;, It -is! stated .'above, that. during •'• the -year .Yby//.thosb. ; ;who' '-.were- v, assisted amounted .to ,<£96,'ossj';.but : it .mii St.be /fenlem-' bere'd-that .this only-applies to? those/who made ,arrangementsi /.with'',: the 'High .Commissioner,. : and-; does ■ not. ; rofer..to 'any of those/,who;have been nominated;.in;;the.;Dominidn;-,-as .brio .cbnditioh.pf .tho:hbmihdtion'musibo:that'th6-:p'et-' BDn'■:doing so Has':pr6S'ided;,br'will: providefor his;;nbminees;.-.ilpbn/arrival.;. Tho,:number: of letters .received, during the year was-.0330, 7235/wero dispatche'd'froni/the 'office.;-. From attached: statistics,'!it.:appears /that.'' tho -. total; nmb'dht ■'.-of: •paid; -,''by:!:'the High ;:■ Cominisisoner: / was,/',£16,560,:'0f,- the ,2822 /persons.:, approved 'by .the,,Higlu'.Cdnimissiori;'. 2339.carae.u'n'ddr the ". and-incliided/IOKi,; single- men//'arid > heads : of families,- 461.:wero'domestics, and; , 22. , pbrsohsj thcludingsbveh adultsji'camo iindef-'the:.'head-.ing/.'^Artisaiis; and;. Miscellaneous.",'.' The' 2131 pcrSbhs/authbrised/by': the ■ Immigration/.Db- : partmeht iri:'--New.:, Zealand:-,included '238j;: of whom/-118 -were,.-adults '.unders-.-tho ■'"• heading "'Farmers," .173 /domestics arid. 1720,'; including' 680 '.adults, /under, .the heading ''' Artisans and [Miscellaneous." /::-:-;::,:;:;-:::.•::/: ,-,'■; ,'-...•:-•