New Zealand Gazette – 1907 – No. 10

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✨ Industrial Statistics



IRON AND BRASS FOUNDRIES.

TABLE XXXV.—Showing the Number of Iron and Brass Foundries in Operation in April, 1906, the Hands and Power employed, the Amount paid in Wages, the Manufactures and Value of Work for the Year 1905, and the Approximate Value of Land, Buildings, Machinery, and Plant.

Provincial Districts. Number of Works. Hands employed. Wages paid. Motive Power. Horse-power. Value of Materials used or operated on during 1905. Total Value of Manufactures (including Repairs) in 1905. Approximate Value of
M. F. M. F. Steam. Water. Oil. Gas. Electric. H.p. £ £ Land. Buildings. Machinery and Plant.
Auckland .. .. .. .. 16 409 1 38,022 26 8 2 .. 10 .. 202 40,034 93,287 25,514 16,540 33,993
Taranaki .. .. .. .. 1 41 .. 4,737 .. 2 .. 1 .. .. 48 4,374 10,092 1,500 1,100 1,912
Hawke’s Bay .. .. .. 5 211 1 18,433 75 6 .. .. 4 2 126 23,774 54,008 22,910 14,284 11,574
Wellington .. .. .. 11 191 .. 16,254 .. 4 1 .. 2 .. 153 18,058 38,745 3,159 4,540 21,733
Nelson .. .. .. .. 3 286 2 26,988 139 6 .. .. 6 2 151 29,070 59,114 11,801 17,190 17,812
Westland .. .. .. .. 4 676 20 39,906 462 12 .. .. 8 .. 541 58,375 121,281 22,508 14,197 42,608
Canterbury .. .. .. 13
Otago .. .. .. .. 18
Totals, 1905 .. .. .. 71 1,814 24 144,340 702 38 3 1 30 4 1,221 173,685 376,527 87,392 67,851 129,632

ENGINEERING-WORKS.

TABLE XXXVI.—Showing the Number of Engineering-works in Operation in April, 1906, the Hands and Power employed, the Amount paid in Wages, the Value of Manufactures for the Year 1905, and the Approximate Value of Land, Buildings, Machinery, and Plant.

Provincial Districts. Number of Works. Hands employed. Wages paid. Motive Power. Horse-power. Value of Materials used in 1905. Total Value of all Manufactures and Repairs in 1905. Approximate Value of
M. F. M. F. Steam. Water. Gas. Oil. H.p. £ £ Land. Buildings. Machinery and Plant.
Auckland .. .. .. .. 18 376 .. 23,904 .. 3 .. 12 2 160 39,481 76,111 16,006 8,089 15,530
Taranaki .. .. .. .. 1 499 2 50,548 46 11 .. 4 .. 478 58,013 122,359 34,281 19,629 39,524
Hawke’s Bay .. .. .. 2
Wellington .. .. .. 12 49 .. 5,113 .. 4 .. 5 5 34 4,740 12,140 4,135 2,920 4,447
Nelson .. .. .. .. 4 922 20 87,240 1,145 12 .. 6 2 437 121,131 226,426 26,415 18,599 60,326
Canterbury .. .. .. 6
Otago .. .. .. .. 18
Totals, 1905 .. .. .. 61 1,846 22 166,805 1,191 30 .. 27 9 1,109 223,365 437,036 80,837 49,237 119,827

NOTE.—In a few instances returns for “Engineering-works” are included in “Iron and Brass Foundries,” and particulars of manufactures in nearly all cases are not stated.

The above table does not include twenty Government Railway and Maintenance workshops (eleven Railway workshops and nine Maintenance workshops): Hands employed in year 1905, 1,936; wages paid, £242,670; horse-power employed, 1,042; materials used, £208,726; manufactures and repairs (4 locomotives, 42 bogie carriages, 10 bogie brake-vans, 309 wagons, 1,501 tarpaulins, and repairs to the value of £42,086), the total value of manufactures and repairs in the Railway workshops being £427,341, and the value of machinery and plant £140,845. The value of materials used and value of repairs are not stated in Maintenance workshops returns.



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🏭 Statistics for Iron and Brass Foundries

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Iron foundries, Brass foundries, Manufacturing, Employment, Wages, Materials, Machinery, Provincial Districts, Statistics

🏭 Statistics for Engineering-works

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Engineering works, Manufacturing, Employment, Wages, Materials, Machinery, Provincial Districts, Statistics

🏭 Note on Engineering Works and Government Railway Workshops

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Note, Engineering works, Government railway workshops, Statistics, Employment, Wages, Machinery, Manufactures