ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 455, 10 April 1912, Page 6

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.

FIGURES FOR TWELVE MONTHS

The emigrants from New Zealand by ships leaving the port of Auckland during March of this year, numbered 1628, but only 1137 people arrived. In March of last year the discrepancy was even greater, the emigrants being 1559 in number, as against 847 immigrants. The following shows the comparative figures for the March quarter of this year and last:—l9l2: January, 1952 arrivals, 1366 departures; February, 1196—1296; March, 1137 3911: January, 1515 ary, 905—1378; March, 847—1559; totals, 3267—4142. This shows that while, in the March quarter of 1911, the outgoing exceeded the arrivals by 875, the numbers almost exactly corresponded tor the quarter just ended. The following shows the arrivals and departures at Auckland during the last twelve months, the total departures being 70 in excess of the ar-rivals:-April, 1911, 914 arrivals, 1656 departures; May. 910—1450; June, 943 August, 869—1106; September, 1382 —1416; October, 1143—982; November, 1150—767; December. 1934 137; January, 1912, 1952—1366; February, 1196—1296, March, 1137 1628; totals, 14,522 The number of steerage passengers leaving Auckland for Sydney by the regular weekly steamers is still considerably in excess of the number arriving from Australia in that class. The figures for the past fortnight show that 202 passengers were brought from Sydney in the steerage. The people who left for Australia in the same class numbered 3SO. This shows an excess of 178 in the departures over arrivals for the fortnight.