EMPLOYEES EQUAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 21 May 1934, Page 4

EMPLOYEES EQUAL

DAIRYING AND MANUFACTURING VALUES OF PRODUCTS In an address to the Dunedin Rotary Club, Mr. A. E. Marnier, secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, said many people would bo surprised' to learn that almost exactly the same number of persons were engaged in the manufacturing industries as in dairying. "There are,” lie said, "46,500 males and 10,700 females engaged in dairy farming—that is, both farmers and workers (including members of farmers ’ own families). Add another SOOO for the dairying portion (half) of those engaged partly in dairying and partly in sheep and cattle raising, and you have a total of nearly 66,000 directly engaged in the dairy farming industry, and in the *saiiie year there were just over 66,000 persons engaged in the manufacturing industries. "The value of exports of butter and cheese for 1932 was approximately £20,250,000. In the same year wc produced manufactured goods worth £35,750,000, while the total value of the products of the secondary industries was over £43,000,000. Even deducting the cost of the raw material, ‘added value’ alone was nearly £25,000,000, which itself was greater than the value of the whole of the produce of the dairy farms and dairy factories of the Dominion.”