✨ Industrial Statistics
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 April, 1906; with the Number of Hands engaged, the Amount of Wages paid, Amount of Horse-power (Machine) employed, and the Value of Manufactures for the Year 1905; also the Approximate Value of the Land, Buildings, Machinery, and Plant—continued.
| Manufactories, Works, &c. | Number of Industries in Provincial Districts. | Total Number of Industries. | Number of Hands employed. | Wages paid. | Amount of Power employed (Horse-power). | Value of all Materials used or operated upon during 1905. | Value of all Manufactures or Products (including Repairs) for the Year 1905.* | Approximate Value of | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland. | Taranaki. | Hawke's Bay. | Wellington. | Marlborough. | Nelson. | Westland. | Canterbury. | Otago. | Males. | Females. | Total. | Males. | Females. | Total. | 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 .. .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | £ | £ | £ | .. | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ |
| Returns not included in above | 11 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 4 | 1 | .. | 18 | 12 | 69 | 308 | 133 | 441 | 61,541 | 15,169 | 76,710 | .. | 653,646 | 843,002 | 49,159 | 47,394 | 119,196 | 215,749 |
| 23,996 | 5,346 | 29,342 | 53 | 50,976 | 146,643 | 49,981 | 28,056 | 13,512 | 91,549 | ||||||||||||||
| Totals, Census, 1906 | 885 | 247 | 214 | 846 | 68 | 229 | 112 | 696 | 889 | 4,186 | 44,946 | 11,413 | 56,359 | 3,979,593 | 478,026 | 4,457,619 | 60,335 | 13,163,692 | 23,444,235†† | 3,264,862 | 3,851,902 | 5,392,522 | 12,509,286 |
| Deduct tailoring, dressmaking and millinery, shirtmaking, and monumental masons’ establishments, not included in totals given below for 1891, 1896, and 1901 .. | 120 | 25 | 36 | 148 | 4 | 42 | 4 | 153 | 159 | 691 | 1,393 | 5,160 | 6,553 | 136,787 | 217,296 | 354,083 | 57 | 482,334 | 1,021,509 | 387,418 | 280,565 | 27,290 | 695,273 |
| Totals, Census, 1906 (less deductions shown above) | 765 | 222 | 178 | 698 | 64 | 187 | 108 | 543 | 730 | 3,495 | 43,553 | 6,253 | 49,806 | 3,842,806 | 260,730 | 4,103,536 | 60,278 | 12,681,358 | 22,422,726†† | 2,877,444 | 3,571,337 | 5,365,232 | 11,814,013 |
| Totals, Census, 1901 | 667 | 246 | 144 | 552 | 56 | 176 | 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 | 573 | 128 | 147 | 396 | 50 | 154 | 47 | 448 | 516 | 2,459 | 22,986 | 4,403 | 27,389 | 1,776,076 | 131,516 | 1,907,592 | 28,096 | 3,285,247 | 9,549,360†† | 1,063,989 | 1,743,073 | 2,988,955 | 5,796,017 |
| Totals, Census, 1891 | 577 | 68 | 85 | 333 | 77 | 142 | 51 | 380 | 541 | 2,254 | 22,664 | 2,969 | 25,633 | 1,705,641 | 102,999 | 1,808,640 | 21,696 | .. | 8,773,837†† | 1,286,735 | 1,483,902 | 2,491,189 | 5,261,826 |
- For information as to quantities manufactured or produced, see special tables, ante, 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. † Value of manufactures at Government Railway Workshops not included (£427,341 in 1905), to maintain true comparisons with previous census results. ‡ Value of manufactures at Government Printing Office not included (£83,556 in 1905), to maintain true comparisons with previous census results.
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: 195 tons coffee, 19 tons chicory, 81 tons pepper, 103 tons spice, and 118 tons cocoa, &c.
Wire-works and mattress-factories: 24,515 mattresses, 2,482 gross sofa and mattress springs, &c.
Chemical-works: 18,209 tons manure, 836 tons sulphuric and muriatic acid, and 1,150 tons various acids.
Hat and cap factories: 23,368 dozen hats, 33,151 dozen caps.
Manure-works: 6,676 tons manure.
Paper-mills and paper-bag and box manufactories: 1,708 tons paper, 428 tons bags, 5,520,000 bags.
Basket and perambulator factories: 6,898 perambulators and go-carts, 8,947 baskets, 8,229 pounds’ worth sundries.
Brush and broom factories: 368,550 brooms, 405,276 brushes, 3,500 bellows.
Chaff-cutting establishments: 51,181 tons chaff cut, also grain threshed, cut, and hay baled.
Hæmatite-paint and varnish factories: 156 tons paint, 22,407 gallons varnish.
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