CENSUS INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.
■ ItOPl'l AND TWINE WORKS. ■Rope and twinc-making would appear to liavo advanced sinco 1900 to judge from the vatuo of all manufactures given in (ho returns, rtliicli amounted to £100,753 for the year 1905, against £87,863 five years before, llie quantity of rope made represented in weight is shown at 618 tons for 1905 census year. As to materials used, phorniium comes by fur Iho first, 1568 lons in 1905 being utilised against 363 tons of nianiia. . , 1905. 1000. ilalorials used:— Phorniium, quantity (tons) 1,563 1,592 . ' .V value .. .. £35,105 £8,(163 Manila, quantity (tons) .. 303 231 4 value £10,521 £13,140) lofnl value of all mami•fuelures £100,753 XS7.SG3
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13845, 7 March 1907, Page 11
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