✨ Census Results
Numb. 8. 193
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1897.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1897.
Census, 1896.—Manufactories, Works, &c.
Registrar-General’s Office, Wellington, 6th January, 1897.
THE tables relating to the various manufactories, works, &c., in the colony are now complete, and the total result,
compared with that shown at each of the two previous censuses, is exhibited in the following tables.
It must be remembered that, while all establishments or works are included which are of the nature of a factory,
employing a number of persons, using some kind of machinery or plant, and probably steam- or water-power, the smaller
establishments, where only a few persons may be engaged in making articles for retail disposal, or in repairs, as a general
rule are kept out of the tables, which do not therefore give the value of all the work done in such matters as boot and shoe,
general clothing, and furniture making, &c. But, though it is not easy to settle in all cases what to put in and what to
leave out, it can be fairly well done, and quite sufficiently so to admit of reliable comparisons being given of different census
results, so as to afford a just idea of the development or otherwise of the various branches of industry. The totals for the
industries do not include mining and quarrying, which are dealt with separately.
The annual value of all manufactures increased between 1890 and 1895 by the sum of £775,523, while the increase for
the previous quinquennium was as great as £2,062,458. But a moderate increase in money signifies in respect of some
items a greater increase in production. The increases of quantity will be found in the special tables for the more
important industries.
The development of the butter- and cheese-making industry by way of factory work has helped greatly to make up
the total increase shown since 1890 ; on the other hand, the decline of the flax- and grain-milling has operated unfavourably
on the comparison for the years 1890 and 1895.
The great rise of the meat-freezing industry happened between 1885 and 1890, and this large increase, representing in
money no less than £920,781, is probably the principal cause of the increase for the whole of the manufactures being so
much greater for the period 1885-90 than for 1890-95; but there is also, amongst many other causes, the fact that flax-
milling was prosperous in 1890 (showing an increase over 1885 amounting to £214,207), but in 1895 in a state of the
utmost depression, the value of the product of the mills being only £32,546, against £234,266 in 1890.
E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.
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- E. J. Von Dadelshzen, Registrar-General