EMIGRATION FIGURES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 10 January 1913, Page 2

EMIGRATION FIGURES.

Giving evidence before the Royal Commission on Emigration, sitting in London, Mr John Burns said that in the ten years from 1901 to 1911 Ireland emigrated 336,000 people, or 130 per cent, of its natural increase, which was 263,000. In 1911 the natural increase of population in Ireland was 1000 less than the total number of emigrants during the year. Between 1851 and 1911 4,218,000 Irish people left Ireland, or 81 per cent, of the average population. THE EXODUS FROM SCOTLAND. The natural increase of Scotland’s population in 1910 was 51,755, and the number of those emigrating was 55,344, making a net loss in population of 3500. In 1911 the net loss was more than in 1910, probably about 5000 or 6000; while in 1912 the figures which they had been able to secure showed a probable net loss of 15,000 to 25,000. During the first half of the present year 38,000 people had left Scotland, and from what they heard more were going fast. It -was said that some of the Territorial regiments were losing many of their bet men. Young farmers were going, and in some parts of Scotland there was a dearth of skilled and unskilled labour mainly due to emigration.