MIGRATION FIGURES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20365, 20 September 1929, Page 14

MIGRATION FIGURES.

DEPARTURES FROM BRjTAJN.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

[from our own coijtjfsponpent,]

LONDON, Aug. 15

The movements of people of British nationality who have left the Mother Country to take up permanent residence in non-European countries is discussed in the Board of Trade Journal. In the first six months of 1929 these numbered 76,370, as compared with 66,925 in the same period of 1928.

. Residence for a year or more is treated as permanent residence for the purpose of this -classification. Those pnssongers arriving in the first half of 1929 who were recorded as leaving permanent residence in non-European countries to takj? up permanent residence in the United Kingdom numbered 29,066, aa against 28,851 in the corresponding period of 1928.

Tho number of British emigrants to the British Empire during the first half of 1929 was nearly 7000 more than in the first six months of 1928; the movement to British North America during tho half-year was 43,557, or 14,552 greater than in the first half of 1928, while in the cases of Australia and New Zealand tho numbers fell from 15,067 to 8577 and from 2250 to 1705 respectively. No con siderable variation is shown in the num bers to British South Africa, India (including Ceylon) and the group "Other Parts of the British Empire." Comparing the movement of British emigrants to all parts of the Empire during tho 12 months ended Juno, 1929, and June, 1928, an increase of 7214* is shown for the more recent period. The emigrants of British nationality to tho United States numbered 24.762 during tho year ended June 30, 1929, as compared with 22,773 during the year ended Juno 30, 1928; the British quota (Great Britain and Northerp Ireland only) for each of these periods was 34,007 This quota does not apply solely to emi griints. direot- from Great Britain and Northern Ireland to tho United States, 'but tb all persons boru in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, who are admitted into tho United States and are not exempt from inclusion in the quota? from whatever country they may coma.