POPULATION GAIN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1724, 15 April 1913, Page 4

POPULATION GAIN.

• ' ! LAST YEAR'S TOTAL DOUBLED. During last year tiho Dominion gained , more than tivico as many people by cxcesa of arrivals oral' departures as in tho proceding year.' According to a return furnished by tho Government Statistician, tho population gain by excess of arrivals over departures during t'ho twelve months ending March 81 last was 11,957, tho arrivals numbering 4G,B93'and the departures 34,035. Tho population gain for tho pre-, ceding year by excess of' arrivals was 5892. • -t • Tho gain from tho United Kingdom is tho year just closed is shown as U.GBS, uiid t'lifl gain from Australia as C. Arrivals ' from tho United Kingdom numbered 14,16!), and departures 2481. Arrivals from Australia - numbered 29,570, and departure 1 for tho Co.iimomvMltli 29,570, ■ l . Theso figures bring to light a fcaturo of t'ho imputation statistics which was re- ■ dently commented upon in Tins Dominion:. Australian, ports being liny-ports on tho' ocean mutes between New Zealand and tho Old Worli, the Commonwealth ap. peara to 1m frequently credited with a ' fictitious'gain in population, duo to llie ' fact that numbers of people bound to the United Kingdom and other /European countries book their passages in the first iiibtanco for Australia, ' , • ...» , Assisted immigrmts during 1912-13 numbered. 3451, details being as follow:—Do- . mestio servants, KtOS;--farmers and farm labourers, -923;• wives coming out to. join husbands already in Now Zealand, 531; children, 980. : i > ft «j , ■ ■■■ - . .