OVERSEA PASSENGERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1658, 26 January 1906, Page 2

OVERSEA PASSENGERS.

IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. The Registrar-General gives in the Go verntnent Gazette some interesting particulars relative to immigration and emigration, so far a 3 New Zealand is concerned, during the past year. He says the arrivals in the colony last year (32,685) exceeded the number recorded in 1904 (32,632), and the departures during 1955, which numbered 23,383, were also greater than those in the previous year, viz, 22,277, The excess of arrivals over departures last year was 9302, against 10,355 in 1901. The colony has drawn to itself in each of the 10 yea’s, 1896 to 1905, more populaiion than it has parted with. The arrivals from the United Kingdom for 1905 show an exoesß of 3699 over the departures, and from Australian States there is an exCBBS of 5765, but for other countries a loss of 162.

Of the 32,G85 persons who oatne to New Z3aland last year, 3538, or 10 82 per cent, of the total, were children, i.e., under 12 years of age, and of the 23 383 depaitures the children numbered 1751, or 7'49 per cent. It is somewhat remarkable that the largest number of our foreign immigrants come from Austria. Thcs9 numbered 265, and of that total 259 were adult males, five females, and ens a male infant. China swelled our population by 224 males and 14 females. Tho United S ates of America sens over 147 adult males, 78 females, and 28 children. Germany gave us 171 new colonists, France 121, the Paoifio Islands 28, aod Japan only one, an adult male.