CENSUS INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1907, Page 8

CENSUS INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.

| THE GRAIN MILLS. The result of tho enquiry mado by tho Registrar-General last yeor regarding tho gram mills of tho colony show that bo far j as it relates to number of mills, hands employed, and grain operated upon there has been no great increaso during five years. Tho flour produced in 1905 was given as 95,528 tons, against 83,017 tons in 1900. But the value of the output of all kinds, which includes meal, was returned for 1905 as £1,058,656, against £682,884- for 1900, showing that a much higher valuo was placed on the flour, etc., at the last census than at the previous ono. The ruling price in Canterbury wheat for 1900 was stated at 2a per bushel, while for 1905 the figures for best wheat were 3s 6d, and for other sorts from 2s 8d per bushel. Following are details: — 1906. 1901. Number of milto „ .. 77 78 Number of hand* employed 540 515 Amount paid in mgu.. £57,335 £<9,3fc4 Amount of horac-power .. 3488 2,422 Approximate vaiae of land £71,870 £44,683 Approximate value of baildinga .. .. _ .. £160,799 £132,817 Approximate value of machinery and plant „ £178,889 £181,151 Tho quantities of groin oujratod on in 1905 and 1900 were as follows: — Wheat, 4.352,544 bushels in 1905, as compared with 4,004,789 in 1900; other grain, 714,955 bushels in 1905, as compared with 762,340 in 1900 ; total value of grain operated on, £835,477 in 1905 and £545,642 in 1900. Tbe produce for 1905 and 1900 was as follows:— Flour, 95,528 tons in 1905, as compared with 83,017 tons in 1900 ; meal, 724? tons in 1985, ag against 7418 tons in 1900. The total value, of tho output in 1905 was £1,058,686, as compared with 686,884 in WOO.

Lady Sarah Wilson (nee Isabella Augusta Churchill, daughter of the seventh Duke of Marlborough) is at present on a visit to Wellington. Lady Wilson achieved celebrity at the time of the South African war, to which she went oat as a hospital nurse. At, the siege of Mafeking she was one of the beleaguered people, and did ranch to keep up the spirits of the garrison by ' organising entertainments, etc. . In conjunction with Major-General BadenPowell she published a newspaper at Mafekmg during the same period. She was captured by the Boers outside Mafe- [ king, but eventually was exchanged for j a notorious Boer prisoner. Lady Wilson is the» wife of Major Gordon Cheaney Wilson, of the Royal Horse Guards, who served on the staff, in South Africa, and_ was twice mentioned in despatches, besides receiving tho Queen's medal and three clasps. Diversity of wind is about tho most /striking feature of New Zcaland'-s weather to-day. W., S., N.W., N.E., E., N., S.E., S.W., were specimens of the breezes that blew in yaricis localities at 9 o'clock this morning. A fall in the barometer is announced, bat the raini which was due to fall a& near as Hokitika. and Lytteltou lias seen cause to> beat a retreat. Tbe following teachers havo resigned from the service of the Education Board:— Mr. T. H. Gill, head teacher, Newtown ; Mr. 11. MacKenna, head teacher, Pirinoa ; Mr. H. P. Smith, hoad toacher, Alfredton ; Mr. J. Johnson, pupil teacher, Torrace ; Miss J. Bronnan, assistant, Newman ; Miss L. Graham, second teacher, Ihuraua ; Miss H. Birnie, assistant, Shannon ; Misjs H. Graham, second teacher, Ngapopotn ; Miss M. E. Hopwood, second teacher, Mangarama ; Miss- M. Baldey, assistant, Levin. At tbo next , meeting of the Education Board Mr. A. H. Vile will move: — "That in view of movement in the direction of encouraging instruction in homo economics in the educational institutions of tho colony, this board urge upon the Education Department the desirability and arranging for the engagement for a period, Miss Gilchrist, of Tennessee University, or some other competent person." At a special meeting ot the Education Board this afternoon, Messrs. Allan, M'Donald, and Rev. W. A. Evans, wero elected tho board's representatives on tho Technical Education Bo»rd. Messrs. Vile and M'Donald were elected manuj!§rß,of tho Potone.-Techaigal«:scl»S2l!, \