IMMIGRATION REPORT.
THE GAIN TO NEW ZEALAND
[BY telegraph.—special correspondent,]
I Wellington, Thursday. The annual report upon immigration, which whs laid on the table of the House of Representatives to-day, shows that during the year ended March last, there was a gain of 1243 persons over the number given in the last report. They possessed capital to the extent of £114,689, and an annual income in addition of £1988. The amount contributed by the colony in passage money was £12,570. In the early part of last year 279 navvies arrived for the North; Island Main Trunk railway, but the granting of passages to this, class had been discontinued.
All the immigrants, it was stated, were of a very superior class. The concession of assisted passages to relatives of persons already in the colony had been largely availed of. A large number of applications for information concerning the colony was also being received from the .United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia and other countries.
The total number of persons to whom assisted passages were granted during the year was 5712, the number including 466 farmers, 279 navvies, 254 domestics, and !841 artisans and members of various occu- | pations.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13482, 5 July 1907, Page 5
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