CENSUS INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1907, Page 8

CENSUS INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.

Statistics concerning brick, tile, and pottery works of New Zealand have just been completed by the Registrar-Gene-ral' (Mr. Yon Dadelszen). These works employed in 1905 1254 hands, against 838 in 1900, and the number of bricks proJkaied rose from 40,900,000 to 69,800,000 for those years. Theie were also firebricks made to the number of 774,000 in 1905. The value of bricks of all kinds was £150,200. The value of potteiy made, including drain-pipes, rose from £34,810 to £52,193, and the total value of all the manufactures from £122,230 to £2J.6,550. Following are details-.— Census year. 1906. 1901. Number of work* .. „ 125 108 Number of bands employed .. 1254 838 Amount paid in Wages „ £99,246 £63,936 Amount of horse-power .. 1496 -659 Approximate value of land.. £96,001 £41,123 Approximate value of buildings £83,367 £37,718 Approximate ralue of machinery and plant .. .. £94,453 £35,726

A farm property of 902 acres six miles from Clareviilc, Wairarapa ,was offered for sale to-day by Messrs. Harcourt and Co., auctioneers, in the presence of a considerable nmnber of the public. The property was tun up to £7 5s an acre, at which price, being less than the re<serve, it was passed in. It is now open for private sale. As we went to press this afternoon the Magisterial investigation was being confumed into tho fatality at the corner of Lambton-qnay and Bowen-sfcreet, on 17th December, when Mrs. Amy Kensington 'was knocked down and* killed by the Fire Brigade's motor-engine. The sixth annual contest for the Joint Challenge Scroll presented for competition among the various colleges of the New Zealand University will be held at Auckland next Raster. Victoria College ■ariH be represented by Messrs. B. J. Fitz- - gibbon and H. F. O'Leauy. The scroll i& td present held by Victoria, College, Mr. .b-itzgibbon and Mr. F. Kelly having been the gnecesafal local representative*) lasb year. The subject lor the coming debate -w&L be, "Tha* the growing activity of Eastern nations constitutes a serious menace to Western civilisation." The Rev. W. BeaMy and Messrs. F. E. fiaame, JJL H.R.,-and~ J. H, Upton will act jib judge*.