INDUSTRIES.
CAPITAL AND OUTPUT. INTERESTING STATISTICS. Official statistics as under were issued last week in regard to industrial . establishments in New Zealand: — EMPLOYEES. Industry 1920-21 1921-22 Meat freezing and preserving 8,328 7,958 Eutter, cheese, and condensed milk factories 3,089 3,586 Sawmilling, sash & door factories 8,385 7,704 Engineering 3,274 2,666 Printing, publishing and bookbinding 4,126 4,041 Coachbuilding , 1,102 976 Motor & cycle engineering ....! 1,919 2,019 Tanning, fellmongering and wool-scouring ... 1,0/59 1,191 'Furniture and cabinetmaking 2,066 1,854 Woollen milling 2,176 2,464 Boot and shoe making . 2,103 2,132 Clothing manufacture . 6,270 6,095 Flax-milling 815 669 WAGES. Males. Females. Total. £ £ £ 1920-21 11,055,079, 1,514,825 12,569,904 1921-22 10,453,513 1,066,462 11,519,975 MATERIALS. 1920-21 53,426,649 1921-22 39,909,824 VALUE OF PRODUCTS. 1920-21 1921-22. £ ) £ Meat freezing and preserving .. 10,530,107 Butter, cheese, v and condensed milk manufacture 19,002,047 15,003,958 Sawmilling and sash and doormaking 4,712,003 4,772y322 Engineering ... 1,837,651 1,454,438 Printing, publishing, and bookbinding . 3,395,276 / 4,464,224 Coachbuilding . 700,236 605,467 Motor and cycle engineering . 975,937 1,047,131 Tanning, fellmongering and wool scouring .... 3,435,212 1,625,861 Furniture and cabinetmaking 1,238,539 1,0*28,144 Woollen milling 1,332,451 1,229,829 Boot and shoe making 1,496,474 1,310,059 Clothing manufacture 2,859,439 2,225,042 Flaxmilling ... 344,086 260,267 COAL CONSUMPTION. More than 67 per cent, of the ©oal used in manufacturing industries is I consumed in the North Island. This is •accounted for largely by the extensive use in the two main centres of the South Island of hydro-electric power. The most remarkable differences appear in tramways, electric supply, and gasworks. Tramways use in the North Island 67,858 tons, as against 2534 tons used in the South Island; electric sup--j'lv 79,174 in the North as against 14,OG6 in the South, and gas supply 170,506 tons in the North Island as against 76,965 in the South Island.
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Northern Advocate, 19 April 1923, Page 2
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