New Zealand Gazette – 1897 – No. 8

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✨ Manufacturing Statistics



MANUFACTORIES, MACHINES, WORKS.

TABLE III.—General Summary of Manufactories, Works, &c. (excluding Mines and Quarries), in Operation in the several Provincial Districts of New Zealand in April, 1896, with the Number of Hands engaged, the Amount of Wages paid, the Nature and Amount of Power employed, and the Value of Manufactures for the Year 1895; also the Approximate Value of the Land, Buildings, Machinery, and Plant.*

Provincial Districts. Number of Works, Industries, &c. Motive-power employed. Amount of Horse-power. Number of Hands employed. Amount paid in Wages in the Year 1895. Value of Materials used or operated upon in 1895. Approximate Value of Manufactures, &c. (including Repairs), 1895.† Approximate Value of
Number of Engines, &c., driven by Land (excluding Crown) Buildings. Machinery and Plant. Total.
Steam. Water. Gas. Horse. Oil. Wind. Electricity. Total.
M. F.
Auckland.. 573 229 36 60 13 .. 3 .. 341 6,588 5,044
Taranaki.. 128 85 42 .. 5 4 1 .. 137 1,389 843
Hawke's Bay 147 71 1 10 12 1 1 .. 96 2,727 1,280
Wellington 396 224 30 32 9 .. .. 1 296 4,232 4,149
Marlborough 50 19 10 1 5 .. .. .. 35 555 311
Nelson .. 154 88 17 5 5 1 .. .. 116 921 625
Westland.. 47 28 8 3 1 .. .. .. 40 604 286
Canterbury 448 207 42 30 16 .. 1 .. 296 4,343 4,944
Otago .. 516 250 50 38 27 .. 1 .. 366 6,737 5,504
Totals, 1895.. 2,459 1,201 236 179 93 6 7 1 1,723 28,096 22,986
Totals, 1890.. 2,254 991 288 119 112 .. 4 .. .. 21,696 22,664
Totals, 1885.. 1,946 811 214 67 117 .. 9 .. .. 15,491 19,601
  • Not including Government Printing Office and Government Railway Workshops. † See note to Table I.


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