THE TREND OF EMIGRATION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 120, 19 May 1909, Page 8

THE TREND OF EMIGRATION.

NEtV ZEALAND FAVO^iSD

LONDON, April 2. The statistics of the Emigrants' Information Office fully bear out the .explanation of'the High Commissioner with regard to the unsolicited trend of emigration towards New Zealand. This is an Imperial Government bureau, and deals in a perfectly impartial 'manner with inquiries from persons: desiring to go abroad. ! For some years, while Canada was; booming, the bulk of the inquiries: were naturally about the vast prairies of the Dominion. But lately there has been a congestion in Canada with rather' sad results in many cases, and persons who were desirous of emigrating turned their attention towards the newer England in the Pacific. > Last year the departures to Canada were only 81,211, as against 151,216 in 1907, while New Zealand, of course, received a record influx. Inquiries about Canada at the Emigrants' information Office fell off, 54 percent, for the year, while those about New Zealand increased 65 per cent., and those abtiut specific Australian State's 19 per cen,t. • 1 A PROTEST. I Referring to the trickery that is practised by young men desirous of getting out to the Dominion as farmhands, the Manchester Evening Chronicle says:—"This sort of thing is, fr.ankly, reprehensible. We have no right to foist our unemployed off on New Zealand in this way—no more right than Russia has to dump her unemployed down on London and Manchester. The minority of the Jfoor Law Commission advocates that the problem of emigration should be dealt with by the.Government experts, who would take care that men emigrating should neither be misled by interested shipping agents, nor should mislead the Colonies into thinking that they are capable of adding to the productive power, whereas they would* merely add ; to the density of unemployment. New ". Zealand has certainly, some claim on our consideration.?'