BRITISH EMIGRANTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1589, 5 November 1912, Page 7

BRITISH EMIGRANTS.

. . WHERE THEY GO TO. . | During Auguit: .(a:rebiW iMuei : by.:'tli4:!' ■ Board of Trade ou .September 25. shows) - . 38,727 residents of tho United Kingdom emigrated to other countries. Ifcre than • . i ' two-thirds,■ or 28i770;. :Svere to./; . British Dominions beyond tho sens,, of . ~■■■■.; j whom Canada- received 17,687, Australia/ 6500, and New Zealand 2324. For tho. five months April-August-tho : : total of'emigrants wero. 208,842, of-.whom;, there went; to British -possessions 155,265, Canada's proportion being ■ H0,382 .(because*' •It has the. 'advantage. . of: its spring in- ■ :■/ (lux)/'Australia's 33,497, ,ar.d New Zca»' land's 5152. • ' As the official statistics are given in the . foregoing .form for tho first timo this year thoro is no opportunity of eon- j feting: theni with tho .movements, in the., , ; corresponding periods of Mil. But the .... figures, of balance of passengers in and out taf Britain finable tho following ' rough contrast of emigration for the firsteight inonths. pf tho year to be given, onlj British subjects being counted:— •: Emigration to— 1912. ■ .■ 1911. Canada 114,000 116,000 Australia •••■•, 42,000 27,000 • V; Jv'eir Zealand 5,000 fyPOO / 'vi Canada is. represented, as receiving ..200fci'. . i fewer in tho eight months, Australia' ■. 14',0.00 liioro (50- per cent, increase), and •, New Zealand 3000 additional (100 per V' s. i cent, increase) in comparison with • ' ; ary.August, 1011.—"Daily Jfftil." ,

For tho primary schools of Scotland tho - :■■' ■> average attendance exceeds 700,000,. . ' ;