MOVEMENT IN POPULATION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 6

MOVEMENT IN POPULATION

SLUMP IN EMIGRATION.

A falling-off in emigration _rom the United Kingdom during tho -early part of 1914 is shown in'the.an&ual report of* the Emigrants' Information Office, During the first 'seven-_n_nths of the year, which excludes. - thfe war period, the falling-off was as follows in emigration to British. Dominions:— " * i 914 1913 , Canada ...-60,484. 146,009 . Australia ... 22,489 37,473 : New Zealand ... 4,393 7,9.01 The reason is .partly that the gss&at rush -of emigration in recent years -has reduced the available supplies '«£ the Units_t -Kingdom, and partly that commercial conditions ris some of th© Dominions have .been less favorable. In Canada, particularly, 'the ihaancial stringency made it necessary to deter certain classes of emigrants. In Australia the drought of 1914 * Has temporarily chßdked employment. . j The total number of. emigrants from' the United-Kingdom in 1914 to places out of Europe was 214,138, as compared with' 389,394 in 1913. The total •number that went to the Dominions was 126;M9,'as against 272,894 in 1913. British 'inimi__ran.ts from all parts of the world were 104,995, as against 85,709 in 1913.