MIGRATION FIGURES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20832, 26 September 1929, Page 5

MIGRATION FIGURES.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

(From Quit Own Correspondent.)

■ LONDON, August 15. . “ 4110 Boa rd bf Trade Journal, out to-day, some space is devoted to the movements of people of British nationality who have left the Mother Country to take up permanent residence iu non-European countries.

lu the first six months of 1029 these re 76,370, as compared with 6b,020 in the saine period of 1028. - Residence for a year or more is treated as permanent residence for the purpose of this classification. Those passengers arriving in the first half of 1020 who were recorded as leaving permanent residence in non-European countries to take up permanent residence in the United Kingdom numbered 29,066, as against 28,851 in the corresponding period of 1928. The number of British emigrant to the British Empire dating the first half of 1920 was nearly 7000 more than in the first six months of 1028;. the movement to British ■ North America during the half-year was 43,557. or 14,552 greater than in the first half of 1028, while in the cases of Australia and New Zealand the numbers Cell from 15,007 to 8577 and from 2258 to 1785 respectively. No considerable variation js shown in the numbers 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 dur-, ing the twelve mouths ended June, 1920,' and June, 1928, an increase of 7214 is shown for the more -'cent period. The emigrants of British nationality to the United States numbered 24,762 during the year ended June 30, 1929, as compared with 22,773 during the year ended June 30, 1928; the British quota (Great Britain and Northern Ireland only) for each of these periods was 34,007. This quota .does not apply solely to emigrants direct from Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United States,' but to all persons born in Great Britain and Northern. Ireland, who are admitted into the United States and are not exempt from, inclusion in the quota, from whatevor country they may come.