DROP IN ASIATIC IMMIGRATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 14

DROP IN ASIATIC IMMIGRATION

NEARLY HUNDRED , RACIAL-ALIENS " , ADDED LAST YEAR

-aMjaurar..- Press Association WELLINGTON, Friday.

A decline in the migration to New Zealand of race aliens is shown by the offical report on external migration which has just been issued by the Government Statistician, the document claiming an outstanding decrease for 1926. This is attributed to the Government’s recent restrictions in admitting race aliens to the Dominion.

Of those intending permanent residents the total in 1925 was 191 (5S Chinese, 73 Indians and 60 others) and last year 139 (50 Chinese, 56 Indians and 33 others). Those departing totalled 28 in 1925 and 41 in 1926, the permanent addition of race aliens to the population through migration being given as 163 for 1925 and 98 for 1926. Of the additions in 1926 23 were Chinese, 53 were Indians and 22 are classed as others.

The report goes on to explain: “Although no permits for Chinese immigrants were issued by the Government during 1926, 50 Chinese arrived to take up residence, the majority of these being admitted on permits which had been issued in previous years. The remainder were composed of New Zealand residents who had been absent from the country for more than five years. In this connection it should be noted that where a person returns to New Zealand after an absence of five years, he is, for the purposes of the statistics, deemed to be a new immigrant. Chinese residents departing permanently numbered 27 as against 24 in 1925, so that the addition to the Chinese population during the year on account of migration was 23 compared with 34 in the previous year. “In 1925 there was a substantial increase in the number of Indian immigrants, composed for the most part of young half-castes, but the 1926 figure is 17 less than for 1925. Out of the 1926 total of 56, 16 are half-castes of ages between 15 and 20 years.” “The ‘other’ race alien immigrants intending permanent residence were made up mainly of 11 Syrians (4 males and 7 females) and 15 Polynesians (10 males and 5 females).”