The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1890. Loss and gain in Population.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3501, 3 May 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1890. Loss and gain in Population.

During the last year bur gain in New Zealand, by the arrival of newcomers, has been balanced by the exodus of people from the Colony, but prior to this period the loss was greater than tho gain, and opposition papers are ue7er tired of charging the Government with' the blame of driving peoploout of New Zealand to settle. in neighboring colonies, The causes which temporarily increase.or diminish a population are tolerably apparent on the serface, and no Government can fairly be called to account for the ordinary operation of the law by whioh floating populations in this and every other part of the world are wont to migrate, Wherever borrowed money is being spont there will people congregate. When a boom is reported either in a country, or a town, or a township, a floating population at once settles- in that country, or town, or township, but as soon as. che boom is over, which is usually about the time when borrowed money is exhausted, there is the usual dispersion of peoph), and the place goes down as rapidly as it wont up, i Were a. five million loan floated in this Colony to-morrow, before long, five thousand people would land On our shores to share in the golden stream. Our borrowing days being oyor for the present there, is little ,or })'o prospect of any rapid increase in bur population for some time to come, Still the natural growth of pur population by the old fasliiflned bjjt very reliable annual increase from births will be quite sufficient to securo a steady increase in our census returns, and by ceasing to borrow we best protect the interests of the unborn millionsso dearto Sir George Grey,