New Zealand Gazette – 1902 – No. 22

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✨ Manufactories and Works Statistics

MAR. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 651

MANUFACTORIES, MACHINES, WORKS.

TABLE I.—Showing the Number of Manufactories, Works, &c., of the undermentioned Descriptions in Operation in the several Provincial Districts of New Zealand in March, 1901; with the Number of Hands engaged, the Amount of Wages paid, Amount of Horse-power (Machine) employed, and the Value of Manufactures in the Year 1900; also the Approximate Value of Land, Buildings, and Plant—continued.

Manufactories, Works, &c.	Number of Industries in Provincial Districts.									Number of Hands employed.*			Wages paid.			Amount of Power employed (Horse power).	Value of all Materials used or operated upon during 1900.	Value of all Manu-factures or Produce (including Repairs) for the Year 1900.	Approximate Value of
	Auckland.	Hawke’s Bay.	Wellington.	Marlborough.	Nelson.	Westland.	Canterbury.	Otago.	Total Number of Industries.	Males.	Females.	Total.	Males.	Females.	Total.	H.P.	£	£	Land (excluding Crown).	Buildings.	Machinery and Plant.	Total.
Values for industries of which less than four of any one sort were found in the returns …	40	5	3	4	…	…	…	…	74	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…
Returns not included in above	…	…	…	…	…	…	13	…	13	140	156	296	53,927	9,235	63,162	138	526,252	694,896	44,178	60,881	153,826	258,885
Totals, Census, 1901	752	267	160	707	61	78	648	809	3,680	36,292	10,555	46,847	2,972,193	330,454	3,302,647	39,113	7,749,770	17,853,133	1,980,428	2,575,679	3,852,457	8,408,564
Deduct tailoring, dressmaking, shirt-making, and monumental masons’ establishments, not included in accounts taken for 1896 and 1891 …	85	21	16	155	5	10	101	102	517	854	4,267	5,121	76,914	127,172	204,086	61	350,072	711,984	267,174	155,876	25,883	448,933
Totals, Census, 1901 (less deductions shown above)	667	246	144	552	56	68	547	707	3,163	35,438	6,288	41,726	2,895,279	203,282	3,098,561	39,052	7,399,698	17,141,149	1,713,254	2,419,803	3,826,574	7,959,631
Totals, Census, 1896	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…
Totals, Census, 1891	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…

For information as to quantities manufactured or produced, see special tables previously published, and the final note to this table. Value of output, wages, &c., not shown where the number of establishments is so small that particulars might be identified.

Note.—Two or more distinct industries were carried on at some establishments. In such cases particulars of power, hands, and plant employed, and wages paid, unless stated separately for each branch of industry, have been treated as belonging to the most important work.

The following information is supplied as to quantities of manufactures or productions in case of certain industries for which no special tables have been considered necessary:—

Coffee and spice works: 147 tons coffee, 55 tons chicory, 70 tons pepper, and 231 tons spices, &c.

Wire-works and mattress-factories: 20,925 mattresses, 2,283 gross sofa and mattress springs, &c.

Chemical-works: 5,632 tons manure, 525 tons sulphuric and muriatic acid, 3,132 dozen essences, &c.

Heel- and toe-plate works: 5,427 gross plates.

Hat and cap factories: 21,951 dozen caps, 5,910 dozen hats.

Manure-works: 2,017 tons manure, 35 tons tallow.

Paper-mills and paper bag and box manufactories: 1,750 tons paper, 799,800 boxes, 152 tons bags, 2,290,000 bags

Range- and stove-making factories: 7,951 ranges, 254 stoves, 1,106 colonial ovens, 459 coppers.

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