DRIFT OF POPULATION
SOUTH ISLAND GAINS. Pass* Association. WELLINGTON. December 7. An outstanding fact of the population movement of 1922, according to a sta-tistica-1 report, which has been issued by the Government Statistician, was the nett loss by the North Island of several thousand persons who migrated temporarily or otherwise to the South Island. For a period of years the drift of population tended steadily to the North and this readjustment, in 1922 indicates that the post-war depression of 1921 and 1922 was less felt in the South than in the North. According to the figures, the move-
ment of population between one island and the other during 1922, shows that the South Island gained ten thousand people. That is. ten thousand more •people went from the North to the South than went from the South to the North. Politically, the significance of the figures is their possible effect on Parliamentary representation, as for a number of years past the South Island ha* been steadily losing seats to the North on a population basis.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17217, 7 December 1923, Page 1
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174DRIFT OF POPULATION Star (Christchurch), Issue 17217, 7 December 1923, Page 1
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