AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

MJBTKALIAN AND N.Z. CAULE ASSOCIATION EXITED STATES I-MMIGRATION. XEW YORK. December With ten thousand immigrants already arrived in Ameiica, under December quota, the United States Bureau of Immigiatioii records show that more than three hundred thousand iiinnigiants have arrived during the past live months of this fiscal year beginning or. the 13th. of June, thus indicating that app roximalely eighty-live per cent el the year's quota, has already heen exhausted. Seventeen nations cannot rend any more immigrants until next July. These include Britain, Australia. Now Zealand. Germany, Italy, and the Scandinavian countries. Some quotas are still unfilled but is expected that these- ten will be exhausted by February.

MOTOR DEATH ROLL. WASHINGTON, December 2. That the automobile is proving an nut standing i instrument of death, as well as a means of pleasure and I usiness is indicated by the Census Bureaus report, showing that ll.Otili deaths oe(Ui red through motor nriidoiits in the I’lilted .States in 1922, leprcseiitini, an increase of 1.190 over 1921. Caiifori:ill's rate is the highest, being twonty"ij per hundred thousand of the population. Mississippi i> the lowest, with three and two-filths. Three persons ate killed daily llnough automobiles in New York city, but its rate is only ■me half that of Los Angeles, wld li is twenty-nine and a half per Inn Iren thousand.