New Zealand Gazette – 1907 – No. 12

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✨ Census Industrial Statistics

Census, 1906.—Industrial Statistics.

Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 2nd February, 1907.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

THE following tables (Nos. XXXVII to XLII) relating to Census industrial statistics are published, in continuation of Nos. I to XXXVI in previous Gazettes, for general information.

MINES AND QUARRIES.—COMPARATIVE TABLE, 1906, 1901, 1896, 1891.

TABLE XXXVII.—Showing the Number of each Description of Mines and Quarries, the Number of Hands employed, the Approximate Value of the Output, and the Approximate Value of Machinery and Plant, as returned at the Census of 1906, compared with the Results obtained in 1901, 1896, and 1891.

	Number of Works.				Number of Hands employed.				Approximate Value of Output.				Approximate Value of Machinery and Plant.
	1906.	1901.	1896.	1891.	1905.	1900.	1895.	1890.	1905.	1900.	1895.	1890.	1905.	1900.	1895.	1890.
Gold-quartz mines and machinery	88	120	168	135	3,869	4,333	2,814	1,971	£1,272,375	£796,871	£492,478	£278,893	£1,040,104	£735,927	£335,474	£241,715
Gold-dredging ..	139	145	35	} 74	{ 1,165	965	258	} 495	{ 531,112	287,061	70,016	} 73,713	{ 477,780	528,600*	86,003	} 154,270
Hydraulic gold-mining	93	130	105		650	962	744		135,618	135,944	113,769		255,844	207,750
Collieries† ..	162	145	164	95	3,329	2,460	1,799	1,655	783,045	540,778	370,400	279,777	310,094	372,093	148,367	155,671
Stone (road-metal) quarries	} 17	8	12	9	294	58	59	35	39,370	11,164	6,041	4,487	39,324	4,660	4,070	6,744
Stone (building) quarries
Totals ..	499	548	484	313	9,307	8,778	5,674	4,156	2,761,520	1,771,818	1,052,704	636,870	2,123,146	1,849,030	573,914†	558,400

Capital invested; information as to value of machinery and plant incomplete.
† Figures for 1895 taken from Mines Report; Census returns incomplete.

GOLD-QUARTZ MINES AND MACHINERY.

TABLE XXXVIII.—Showing the Gold-quartz Mines and Quartz-crushing Machinery in Operation in April, 1906, the Hands and Power employed, the Amount paid in Wages, the Number of Tons of Quartz crushed, the Quantity of Gold produced during the Year 1905, and the Approximate Value of Machinery and Plant.

Provincial Districts.	Number of Mines.	Hands employed.	Wages paid.	Motive Power.	Horse-power.	Quantity of Gold produced during 1905.	Quantity of Silver produced during 1905.	Quartz crushed, 1905.	Total Value of Gold and Silver produced, 1905.	Approximate Value of Machinery and Plant.
		Males.	Males.	Steam.	Water.
Auckland ..	..	..	61	3,019	£341,980	23	19	H.p. 6,803	Oz. 237,428	Oz. 1,355,421
Nelson ..	..	..	18	771	111,922	6	12	922	49,194	..
Marlborough ..	..	..	1	79	8,743	3	4	99	3,262	..
Otago ..	..	..	8
Totals ..	..	..	88	3,869	462,645	32	35	7,824	289,884	1,355,421