✨ Comparative census statistics for manufactories
Jan. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 67
MANUFACTORIES, MACHINES, WORKS.—COMPARATIVE TABLE, 1891 AND 1886.
TABLE II.—Showing the Number of each Description of Industry, Manufactory, &c., the Number of Hands employed, the Approximate Value of the Produce or Manufactures for the preceding Year, and the Approximate Value of Land, Buildings, Machinery, and Plant, as returned at the Census of 1891, compared with the Results obtained at the Census of 1886—continued.
| Description of Manufactories, Works, &c. | Number of Works, &c. | Number of Hands employed. | Approximate Value of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891. | 1886. | 1891. | 1886. | Manufactures, &c. | Land, Buildings, Machinery, and Plant. | |
| 1891. | 1886. | |||||
| £ | £ | |||||
| Drinks, narcotics, and stimulants— | ||||||
| Breweries | 102 | 98 | 476 | 475 | 300,508 | 325,182 |
| Malthouses | 27 | 35 | 87 | 85 | 80,341 | 96,015 |
| Colonial-wine manufactories | 14 | 10 | 24 | 15 | 3,456 | 3,626 |
| Aërated-water factories | 112 | 112 | 261 | 273 | 91,691 | 94,098 |
| Coffee- and spice-works | 17 | 14 | 81 | 149 | 64,024 | 98,234 |
| Tobacco manufactory | 1 | 1 | 53 | 30 | * | * |
| Ice manufactory | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | * | * |
| Sauce and pickle manufactories | 12 | 9 | 41 | 35 | 6,407 | 3,145 |
| Vinegar-works | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | * | * |
| Animal matters (not otherwise classed)— | ||||||
| Soap- and candle-works | 19 | 18 | 209 | 204 | 155,714 | 130,745 |
| Bone-mills | 9 | 7 | 25 | 19 | 4,628 | 8,337 |
| Glue factories | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | * | 900 |
| Sausage-skin and violin-string factories | 5 | 1 | 73 | 6 | 10,582 | * |
| Working in wood— | ||||||
| Bark-mill | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | * | * |
| Cork manufactory | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | * | * |
| Cooperages | 11 | 14 | 53 | 60 | 11,540 | 11,862 |
| Saw-mills | 243 | 268 | 3,266 | 5,042 | 832,959 | 1,177,713 |
| Barrow and ladder factory | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | * | * |
| Fruit-case factory | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | * | * |
| Woodenware factories | 5 | .. | 51 | .. | 9,050 | .. |
| Working in vegetable produce for fodder— | ||||||
| Chaff-cutting works | 63 | 83 | 205 | 265 | 63,236 | 54,440 |
| Linseed-oil mill | .. | 1 | .. | 6 | .. | * |
| Paper manufacture— | ||||||
| Paper-mills | 2 | 2 | 48 | 37 | * | * |
| Paper-bag and cardboard-box factories | 8 | 2 | 35 | 15 | 4,497 | * |
| Gas-works | 27 | 20 | 249 | 344 | 178,947 | 194,653 |
| Processes relating to stone, clay, glass, &c.— | ||||||
| Fire-kindler manufactory | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | * |
| Lime- and cement-works | 21 | 24 | 98 | 80 | 19,416 | 16,928 |
| Brick-, tile-, and pottery-works | 106 | 126 | 494 | 598 | 56,830 | 91,797 |
| Tobacco-pipe factory | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | * | * |
| Glass factory | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | * | * |
| Gold, silver, and precious stones— | ||||||
| Precious-stone-cutting works | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | * | * |
| Metals, other than gold and silver— | ||||||
| Tinware factories | 12 | 3 | 93 | 40 | 14,297 | 8,500 |
| Iron and brass foundries, boiler-makers, machinists, and millwrights | 79 | 65 | 1,787 | 1,853 | 403,635 | 368,919 |
| Barbed-wire manufactories | .. | 2 | .. | 43 | .. | 9,700 |
| Fencing-standard factory | 1 | .. | 3 | .. | * | .. |
| Heel- and toe-plate factories | 2 | 3 | 13 | 17 | * | 2,410 |
| Iron-pipe and fluming factories | 2 | .. | 4 | .. | * | .. |
| Spouting-and ridging-works | 12 | 10 | 100 | 70 | 33,140 | 25,478 |
| Lead-headed-nail factory | 1 | .. | 8 | .. | * | .. |
| Copper boiler-making works | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | * | .. |
| Values for industries of which only one or two were found in the returns (see note)* | .. | .. | .. | .. | 345,950 | 207,718 |
| Totals, excluding mines, quarries, &c. | 2,254 | 1,946 | 25,633 | 22,095 | 8,773,837 | 6,711,379 |
| 5,261,826 | 5,096,920 | |||||
| Mines, quarries, &c.— | ||||||
| Gold quartz-mining- and crushing-works | 135 | 101 | 1,971 | 1,156 | 278,893 | 374,837 |
| Hydraulic gold-mining and gold-dredging | 74 | 124 | 495 | 617 | 73,713 | 74,190 |
| Collieries | 95 | 79 | 1,655 | 1,448 | 279,777 | 255,326 |
| Copper-mining | .. | 1 | .. | 100 | .. | .. |
| Antimony-mining | 2 | 1 | 81 | 35 | 11,439 | 1,700 |
| Manganese-mining | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Pyrites-saving machine | .. | 1 | .. | 7 | .. | .. |
| Stone (building) quarries | 9 | 14 | 35 | 196 | 4,487 | 19,217 |
| Totals, mines, &c. | 316 | 322 | 4,247 | 3,560 | 648,309 | 725,270 |
| 565,150 | 600,197 | |||||
| Totals | 2,570 | 2,268 | 29,880 | 25,655 | 9,422,146 | 7,436,649 |
| 5,826,976 | 5,697,117 |
- Money figures cannot be stated without divulging the operations of single establishments, contrary to promise.
NOTE.—The totals represent the full amounts for all the above specified industries, excepting that the value of lands used for mining is not included, and that the values of Crown lands have been omitted throughout.
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