FEWER EMIGEANTS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 125, 29 May 1928, Page 9

FEWER EMIGEANTS

LAST YEAE'S FIGURES (From "The Post's" Representative.) ' LONDON, 24th March. A summary of last year's emigration returns, published in ,the Board of Trade Journal, shows a decrease in tho number of British subjects leaving permanent residence in the United Kingdom for countries overseas. The total was 153,505, compare* with 166,601 in 1926" and 140,594 in 1925. The movement of British emigrants to the Empire as a whole declined by 9573 during 1927 as compared with 1926. The increase of 3284 in the number to British North America, which was no doubt mainly attributable to the low "'fares for "assisted" passages, was in marked contrast to the decreases of 3522 and 8724 recorded in the numbers proceeding to Australia and New Zealand respectively. There were small decreases in the members going to British South Africa and India (including Ceylon) and a small increase in the case of the group "Other Parts of the British Empire." Departures under the Empirq_, Settlement Act during 1927 were 29,132 to Australia, 4446 to Now Zealand, 29,244 to Canada, and 205 to South Africa; the total of 63,027 included 20,169 men, 18,010 women, and 24,848 children. Such departures to Australia, New Zealand, and ( Canada represented 71, 57, and 55 per cent, respectively of the total number of British emigrants to those countries in 1927. The number of British emigrants to the United States (25,662) was 3078 less than in 1926, and in both yearß the aggregate was well within tho prescribed quota. It is noticeable that, of the aggregate of 25,062 emigrants,. 12,258, or nearly one-half of tho total number, loft permanent residence in Scotland. The not excess of British emigration over immigration was 115,----538 in 1926,' and 97,790 in 1927. ' By special arrangement, Keuter's (rorM Berrice, In addition to other special sources of Information, Is used In tlio compilation of the. oversea Intelligence published In this issue, and all rights therein In Australia and New Zealand aro *et«rv«<L