MIGRANT FLOW TURNS BACK
"Our present-dav problem arises from the fact that the flow 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 was a net emigration from British shores of nearly 250,000 people. But since the war there has hardly been a year when it has been more than 100.000. In 1930. the outgoing balance shrank to less than 8000. and in the following years the stream actually started to flow the other way More 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."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23828, 7 June 1939, Page 17
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