CENSUS INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.
PIUXTINIr AXn nOOKBTXDING IiSTAULISHMKNTS. If is necessary to remark previously to considering; the figure* given, Hint, for the sake of obtaining true comparisons, particulars relating to (ho tlovcrnment printing office have been omitted. To arrive at. tho full measure of tho printinir. and bookbinding industry as in 1906, 431 hands should lie added, villi £51.421 of wages paid for the vear 1905 and' £83,556 value of onlpul, besides £57,167 for buildings, machinery, and plant. The increases reworded below will be found very substantial—sl in number' of establishments, 764 in bands employed, and £363,542 in the value of tho output. Female hands increased from 507 to 660. The linotypes used in 1906 numbered 110, and tho monoliucs in operation worn 31. Very particular 'inquiries vvero made lo ensure ihat all Mie value of newspaper work was included in tho returns, as well as I hat of a jobbing character, so that iho oulnnt for 1905 niav lm more completely rendered I ban I hut for 1900. which would make the increase above referrd lo of £363,542 somewhat, abovo tho 'actual fads.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13846, 8 March 1907, Page 6
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