EMPIRE MIGRATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 259, 30 September 1936, Page 8

EMPIRE MIGRATION.

DOMINION’S SMALLER SHARE. NO ASSISTED ARRIVALS. WELLINGTON, Sept. 30. Immigration is dealt with in the report of the Labour Department for the year ended March 31, 1936, which was tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday. The total number of arrivals from the United Kingdom during the year was 653 (322 males and 331 females). Of this total none was assisted by the Imperial and New Zealand Governments. The activities of the department were in the direction of recovery of debts due in respect of passagemoney loans of previous years, an amount of £7Ol 10s 4d being still due to the New Zealand Government in this connection. Refunds due by migrants on account of non-fulfilment of the five years’ residence condition also received attention. The effect of the policy of restriction in respect of assisted migration which was first adopted in May, 1927, is illustrated by figures for recent years. They are as follow:

year. “There is increasing evidence of renewed interest both in New Zealand and in other parts of the British Empire in migration,” states the report. “Various plans have been suggested by organisations interested in the matter, and the department has endeavoured to obtain all available information that may be useful should the present policy be altered.”

Year Assisted Full-fare migrants migrants 1926-1927 . 11,239 3.704 1927-1928 . 3,822 2,375 1928-1929 . 1,968 1,846 1929-1930 . 1,790 . 1,233 1,579 1930-1931 1,377 1931-1932 290 1,968 1932-1933 56 570 1933-1934 4 46-1 1934-1935 1 490 1935-1930 653 *Cases approved. No arrivals during