MIGRANTS TO N.Z.

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22440, 22 September 1947, Page 6

MIGRANTS TO N.Z.

STATISTICS FOR 1948 HIGHEST SINCE 1927 Migration statistics for the 12 months ended m December. 194(1. show, inter alia, that 8850 immigrants intending permanent residence arrived in the Dominion during that period. This ’s ihe highest total for*, many years past and has not been exceeded since 1927, when 11,327 immigrants arrived in the Dominion The 1940 figure is still, however, very considerably below the figures for the years 1924 to 1920. which were: 1924, 14.314; 1925. 15.704: and 1920, 17 868. The total fell to 11.327 in 1927 following the paraal suspension (in May. 1927) of the scheme of granting assisted passages to migrants from the British Isles. During the depression of the early thirties (as in the depression of the late eighties and early nineties of last century), immigration actually fell to such low levels as to cause the usual excess of arrivals over departures to become algebraically negative, A significant feature of the immigration statistics for 1940 is the relatively high number of females aged 20 years and under 30 years in the totals. In all, 2786 arrivals fell within this group, an indication of the inward flow of war brides. The war bride” migration was, however, bv no means all inward gains, since the statistics of New Zealand residents departing in 1946 included ’.422 young women aged 20 years and under 30 years.