Migrant Flow Turns Back

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 153, 1 July 1939, Page 9

Migrant Flow Turns Back

“Our present-day problem arises from the fact that the llow of population from Britain to the Dominions has practically stopped,” said Mr. George Gibson, a member of the Overseas Settlement Board in a recent broadcast talk, “in the last year before the war, 1913, there uas a. net emigration from British shores uf nearly 250,000 people. But since the war there has hardly been a year when it lias been more than 100,000. In 1930, the outgoing balance shrank to less than 8000, and iu the following years the stream actually started to flow the other way. people came back to Britain than the number who left it to settle overseas. In 1937, although 26,000 people went overseas, a still larger number, 34,000 came Home, so that there was a net inward movement of 8000.”