FEW IMMIGRANTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18467, 4 August 1934, Page 13

FEW IMMIGRANTS

j Restrictions effective ; j j liftDER 470 LAST YEAR i Tile, effectiveness of the Government's immigration, restriction policy is shown fin the •annual report of the. Immigration Department, tabled in the House of Reprsentatives. For instance, in the year ended ■Maivli' 31, 192 Y a total of 11.239 assisted '.immigrants and 37C4 lull-fare J immigrants arrived. These figures were: reduced to 3822 and 2375 in the following year, when the restrictions first applied, and 1 there were successive reduction's -Until the respective totals of 56and 570 were reached in 1933. Even ] more substantial curtailment occurred in | the year ended March 31 last, when the > only assisted immigrants were a woman and . three children nominated, by the . husband' in' the previous year. The nctti- ■

! iuation was approved as a special case., 1 The number of full-fare immigrants was : 464. The report sr.vs there are signs of a distinct revival of interest in Empire ■ migration, both in the United Kingdom ' and in the Dominions, and this interest, is likely to bo intensified in the near future owing in some respects to the fact that the Empire Settlement Act, 1922, expires in 1937. Many scheme.; have been suggested, but so far as Now Zealand is concerned it would appear none that has come under notice is as suitaide as the nomination system, which iias been so successfully adopted during past years, and particularly since' the passing of the. Empire Settlement Act,