POPULATION LOSS
FIGURES DECREASING
The gap in numbers between New Zealand citizens leaving the Dominion permanejitly and immigrants, arriving, a notable feature of the statistics of migration for some years, has been considerably narrowed in the five months ending in August of this year. In this period the number of permanent departures exceeded the number of immigrants by only 34, whereas in the corresponding periods of 1936 and 1937 the differences were 909 and 341 respectively.
The total number of arrivals in the Dominion in the 1938 period was 48,034, the figure for the month of August being 8934. The figures for 1936 and 1937 were:—l 936, period 35,538; month, 7820; 1937, period 40,614; month, 9184.
Departures in the five months period of 1938 were 51,081, the figures for the previous two years being 43,675 and 39,270 respectively. In August, 1938, departures totalled 9019, in August, 1937, 8521, and in August, 1936, 7336. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 10
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153POPULATION LOSS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 10
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