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Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1924, Page 2

I'ORKICXKRS IX A I'STIi A 1,1 A. SYDXKV. .July IS. According to returns tlmt have just lieen issued hy the Commonwealth Sintistieiiiu, the foreign element in Australia is almost infinitesimal. The iiumher of persons in Australia on April Ith, 1921, who were stated to be the subjects of foreign nations was 10.701. or less than 1 per cent of the population. If those classed .as migratory. who were mostly on hoard ships in Australian waters, are omitted, the foreion element in the population of Australia would he about 71 in every 10.000 persons. On the basis of males only, the proportion of foreign people would he 121 in every JO.iiilf.l. The foreign proportion of the population differed very materially among the various Stales. The following were the manlier of foreign people in every It/.Of Hi of the population:—Xew Sooth Wales, ; Yietoria, GO : (.luoeiislaod. 12:5: South Australia. Of: West Australia, I -IG : Tasmania. IS. In the .Xorthern Territory the foreign oleuieut represented On?. or 17.0 per cent of the total population (excluding people on ships) of 1?02. Of the Go? foreign persons in the Nortiiern Territory. 10.1 were Chinese. The more important of the foreign peoples, as regards numliers. in Australia were as follows:—Chinese 12.818; Italians, 4228 ; Germans 1107 : Americans (U.S.A.), 29.19; Creeks, 2741; Russians, 2244 ; French, ISG2; Japanese, 1.109; Swedes, 1111: Dutch, 882; Norwegians, 746.