EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8876, 9 November 1907, Page 3

EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION.

(From Our London Correspondent.)

LONDON, September 23. On Saturday the annual statistics as to emigration from and immigration into the United Kingdom in 1906 were published as a White Paper. I give below the figures (these being £ithe outward and inward passengers jPfrom and to non-European countries: " —To or from non-European countries. •—Year 1902, outward 386,779, inward 170,874, balance . outward •215,905; 1903, 449,008,' 199,685, 249,321; 1904, 453,877, 214,898, 211,981; 1905, 459,662. 205,193, 254,469; 1906, 557,737, 230,165, 327,572.. Fro-n these figures must be deducted those travelling far pleasure cr on business, which it is safe to say, will about equal the number each way. and the balance wi'l represent the actual number of emigrants, of British or foreign nationality, leaving these shores with the intention of settling in non-European countries. The number of these emigrants was 327,670, a total which was only exceeded once, viz.. in 1882. Of these 194,671 were British ana Irish, the balance being foreigners. The foreigners, who were nearly all bound for the United States, held, for the greater part, through tickets . from places outside the United Kingdom to their destination. Against this balance outward of foreigners has to be set the balance inward of passengers from the Continent of Europe, which amounted to 134,199. The number of British and Irish emigrants has only thrice been exceeded in the last thirty years, namely, in 1882, 1883 and 1887, all years of specially active emigiation froin Ireland. Both the inward and the outward movement of passengers from and to the Continent in that year far exceeded the movement in any other of the past ten years; the figures being, in fact, the highest on record. The number of incoming passengers was 932,000, an increase of 60,000, as compared with 1905, and of 345,000 or 59 per cent, as compared with 1897. The number of outgoing passengers was 798,000, an increase of nearly 229,090, or 40 per cent., as compared with 1897. The number of incoming alien passengers in 1906 was 465,000 or almost exactly \ half the total number of incoming passengers returned by the shipping companies for the purpose of this report. The great bulk of emigration from the Continent is now from Italy and Austria-Hungary, and most ofitgues to the United States and South America. Of the British and Irish passengers outwards 170,171, or 52 per cent, contracted to land in countries within the British Empire, 35 per cent, going to British North America, 7 per. cent, to British South Africa, 6 per cent, to Australia and New Zealand, 2 per cent, to British India and Ceylon, and theoremainder to British colonies and possessions. Of the 48 per cent, who went to foreign countries 44 per cent, went to th 6 United States—a very big proportion of the whole of the emigrants when it is considered that every man of them is a loss to the isritish flag and a gain to another.