MIGRANTS TO U.S.A.
NUMBER'REDUCED. ERECT OF NEW LEGISLATION. tBY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION. WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. Judging by the first six months’ operation of the new immigration law, Mr. Johnson, chairman of the Immigration Committee of the House of Representatives, estimates that the total immigration for the current fiscal, year will be about half the liet.t immigration in the preceding twelve months. Immigration from Mexico dropped by sixty per cent, and from Canada, by more than 38 per cent, with Germany furnishing the greatest number of European immigrants and the Trish Free State second. had doubled and the exodus .of aliens to Southern Europe, Indian and Asia had lieen greater by 32.000 than immigration from those parts.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 February 1925, Page 5
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