THE TREND OF MIGRATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 October 1913, Page 4

THE TREND OF MIGRATION.

Recently published statistics show that while British immigrants are increasingly seeking British countries in preference to the United States, so long the irresistible Eldorado, other nations are making for the Great Republic or its neighbours in the southern continent. Official figures just issued show that during the year ended on June 30 last the United States received 1,197,892 a total which has only been exceeded once —in 1906-7, when the number was over a million and a quarter.. Concurrently, the number of departures, from the country was lower than ustiat, which obviously .means that the population has been substantially reinforced. As to the detail's of the influx, it is found 1 that more- Slav® landed in the United States than, in any previous year, the total being 388,968, of whom 174,365' were Poles.. There were also 231,613' Southern Italians, and more Armenians, Dutch r Flemish, Portuguese, and" Syrians t|uan ever before-. Argentina, on the other hand, had' 323,400' immigrants in 1912, of whom 165,662 were Spaniards, 80,580 Italians,. 2T,000' Russians, 19,792' Turks, and' only 1316 British and 499 Americans. It stands to reason that much of this immigration must be what, under reasonably strict standards, would be considered undesirable, notwithstanding tlie precautions now taken in the United States. On the oilier hand the latest returns show that the Australian population was never more strongly British' in character. No fewer than 82.9 per cent of the people of the Commonwealth are Australian born, most of them of British parents, while of ihe 2-emainder, over 13 per Cent, come from the United Kingdom, leaving less than 5 per cent, from Eivrope and other countries.