SECONDARY INDUSTRIES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19802, 18 May 1934, Page 8

SECONDARY INDUSTRIES

EMPLOYEES AND OUTPUT By Telegraph —Press Association DUNEDIN, May 17. In an address to the Rotary Club to-day, Mr A. E. Mander, secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, said that many people would be surprised to learn that almost the same number of persons were engaged in the manufacturing industries as in dairying. There were 46,800 males and 10,700 females engaged in dairy farming; that is, both farmers and workers (including members of the farmers’ own families). Add another 8000 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 same year there were just over 66,000 persons engaged in the manufacturing industries. The value of the 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 cost of the raw materif 1, "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.