IMMIGRATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3483, 11 May 1920, Page 5

IMMIGRATION.

INTERESTING STATISTICS.

WELLINGTON, May 10.

"A return furnished by the Immigration Department to the Prime Minister shows that for the first four months of the present year 1351 immigrants arrived in New Zealand. This number does not, of course, include returning soldiers and war Workers. For the present month the number of immigrants will probably be 1000. Mr Massey said that most of these were “n‘ominatedi” by friends or relatives"in.this country, and such immigrants were of no concern to the Government, as they all had friends to go to for ‘advice as soon ps they arrived. Of the immigrants ‘who had arrived 141 of the men had come oui under the Imperial Government’:-: scheme for assisted passages to exservice men. There were still a very large number of New Zealand war Workers~—those members of the New Zealand colony in England who didso much for the soldiers during the war ———remaining in England and desiring to come out to New Zealand when opportunity’ oflers. A