INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS OF THE COLONY.
Tins following is a list of the manufactories, works, &c., showing the industrial development of the colony and its progress : —
The tibular statement is compiled from official sources, but owing to whiina of the statistic colltetors, some returns have been entirely o:uittc:l.
'07. 74. '78. Biscuit manufactories 5 4 6 Bone manure manufactories .13 8 Brick unci tile yards and potteries 37 84 124 Candle and soap works . . 0 12 13 Coach building. . . . 6 19 49 Collieries ..... S 44 40 Fellmongers, tanneries, and wool scouring . . . 30 71 100 Flax works .... 15 110 31 Gas works .... 3 8 12 Ginger beer and cordial manufactories . . . .23 0 7 Iron and brass foundries . . 10 22 23 Lime kilns . » • • 3 14 34 Malt kilns. . . . . . 10 19 25 Engineers, Machinists, &c. . 4 10 S Pateut slips .... 1 0 5 I Petroleum works . . 1 X 0 | Rope and cordage manufactories 7 17 19 Saw-mills and Bash and door # I manufactories ... 93 162 204 i Ship and boat-building . 22 20 43 I Stone quarries for buildiDg . 5 13 14 Woolleu clbfch manufactories .12 3 Agricultural implement O *> 8 Bacon . . • 0 0 Basket and toy-making ..010 Block and pump . . , 0 1 2 Boiler-makiug •.... O 2 0 Boiling-down and meat-preserv-ing 0 10 32 Boot manufactories . . • 0 S 18 Ciyar ditto » . . 0 2 0 "Jlothiog ditto ... 0 2 2 Coffee, chicory, and spice works 0 8 10 Colonial wine .... 0 1 4 Cooperage .•••020 Distilleries .... 0 2 0 Fi3h curing - » . . 0 2 2 Furniture . . . . 0 (? JI Glassworks ,,..010 Glus 0 2 2 -Hat and cap . ..030 Pail, tub, &c. • . . . 0 2 0 Paint . . . . 0 1 J) Printing csfcabll.':'iiiients . . 0 C7 77 Rug and matting ... 0 1 O Turning wood or . . 0X0 YarnisI: . . . ... 0 1 0 Brush manufactories ..002 Chaff-cutting .... 0 0 0 i Chair and washstand ..001 Chemical works ... 0 0 3 Cleauing and dying . ..002 Manganese mining ...001 Oilskin manufactories ..002 Paper Mills .... 0 0 2 Pianoforte manufactory ..001 Portmanteau manufactory ,001 Quartz mines and machinery . 0 0 103 Railway carriage manufactory. 0 0 1 Sail factory ....001 Sauce and pickle works ..002 Spouting and ridging works .001 Stocking weaving factory ..001 Breweries 51 82 87 Grain mills . . . . oS 80 102
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5657, 5 January 1880, Page 3
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367INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS OF THE COLONY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5657, 5 January 1880, Page 3
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