MIGRATION FROM BRITAIN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 October 1928, Page 2

MIGRATION FROM BRITAIN

SUBSTANTIAL DECREASE A substantial decrease in emigration from the United Kingdom is recorded in a special article In the Board of Trade Journal dealing with tlio statistics of passenger movement ,from find to the United Kingdom. The- excess of British emigrants over immigrants was 114,177 in the 12 months ended June, 1927, and 81,959 for the 12 months ended June, 1928; the number of emigrants in the latter year declining by about 30,000 and the number of immigrants increasing by about 2000. "For the purpose of this classification, residence for a year or more has been treated as permanent residence. In neither of these years lias the amount of emigration io the United States reached llie British quota. The emigrants of British nationality to the United States numbered 22,773 during the year ended June, 1928, as compared with 27,065 in the earlier year, whereas tho British quota (for (beat Britain and North Ireland only; lor each of these* periods was 34,007. Comparing the movement of British emigrants to all parts of the Empire during the same two years, a decrease of 25,632 is shown for the later period.. During the first half only of this year tho British subjects recorded as leaving permanent residence in the United Kingdom to take up permanent residence, in non-European countries numbered 66,925, as compared with 83,740 in the corresponding period of 1927. These passengers arriving in the first half of 1928 who were recorded as leaving permanent, residence in non-European countries to take np permanent residence in tho United Kingdom numbered 28,851, as against 29,835 in the corresponding period of 1927. -, :• Tho number of British, emigrants to the British Empire during the first half of 1928 was about 14,000 less than in the first months of 1927; the movement to British North America was smaller by 6248, while decreases of 5396 and 2043 respectively were recorded for Australia and New Zealand.