BRITISH EMIGRANTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144147, 17 July 1913, Page 3

BRITISH EMIGRANTS.

FIGURES FOR LAST YEAR. BY ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH., —COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY SDN SPECIAL CABLE. LONDON, July 16. The yearly returns up to March 31 show that 407,729 Britishers left the United Kingdom for places outside Europe, including Canada 185,349, Australia and New Zealand 92,629, United States 94,176. Sixty per cent, were males between the ages of 18 and 30. Of those skilled trades represented 32 per cent., labourers 25 per cent., agricultural workers 19 per cent., and commercial and professional men 15 per cent. The immigrants to Great Britain totalled 71,276.