MOVEMENTS OF POPULATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 462, 24 June 1909, Page 2

MOVEMENTS OF POPULATION.

During last month the arrivals in New Zealand totalled 2,424, and the departures 3,556, a loss of 1,132 for New Zealand. The incomers included 1,320 men, and in the ranks of the outward bound there were 2,000 men. Thus “male adults” constituted 880 out of the loss of 1,132 by emigration. For May last year the arrivals were 2,659, and the departures 3,031, involving a decrease of 372 in New Zealand’s population, of which adult males contributed 19S (1,570 arrivals against 1,768 departures). It is usual to see the exodus exceeding the ingress here at this time of the year, but the difference for May this year is noticeably above the normal. It is explained partly by a reduction of immigrants from Great Britain, partly by the return of Australians to their own warmer territory, when the winter begins to set in here, partly by the “trippings” of New Zealanders who leave in the early winter to catch the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, and partly by the fact that numbers of men, discouraged by the congestion of the local labour markets, have decided to try their luck in Australia.