AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1926, Page 2

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(Australia & N.Z. Cahla Association.] OBITUARY. NEW YORK, August 22. Obituary.—Charles IV. Elliot, President of Emeritus. Harvard University, at Sunmierhome, State of Maine, ictat ninety-two years. IMMIGRATION LAW EVADED. NEW YORK, August 23. An indication that the present restrictive immigration law, while it was most effective in the first year of its operation. has begun to prove less potent in stemming the tide of incoming common and skilled labourers, against whom it was planned, is 0811tained in an analysis of the immigration statistics issued by the National Industries Conference Board tor the fiscal year ended June 30th. 'I he 1923 annual period saw a nett loss ol 15.103 common labourers, and a gain of only 42.422 skilled labourers; while in tho 1926 fiscal year there was a gain of 10.433 common, and 47.147 skilled labourers. Moreover, the total nett gain in population in 1920 was 227,496, or thirteen per cent, over the gain in 1925, although sixty-four per cent, less than in 1924, which was the last year before the present law became effec-

It is interesting to note that an influx of professional classes from Europe has continued unabated ever since the war. and that, apparently, approximately one out of every hundred persons in Canada came to take up residence in the United States in 1926, the immigration from Canada being 91.090. or 900 less Ilian in the previous venr.