EMPLOYEES EQUAL

Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1934, Page 7

EMPLOYEES EQUAL

DAIRYING AND MANUFACTURING. VALUES OF PRODUCTS. Dunedin, May 17. In an address to the Rotary Club today Mr. A. E. Mander, secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, said many people would be surprised to learn that almost exactly the same number of persons were engaged in the manufacturing industries as in dairying. , . n “There are,” he said, “46,800 males and 10,700 females engaged in dairy farming—that is, both farmers and workers (including members of farmers’ own families). Add another 8000 for the dairy ing portion (half) of those engaged 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 same 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 we 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.”