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Table No. 18. Table showing the Increases in the undermentioned Industries for the Years 1885 to 1900.

Table No. 19. Post and Telegraph Department. Comparison of Business for the Decennial Periods 1882-1892 and 1892-1902.

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Industry. 1885. 1900. Increase. Meat freezing and preserving and boil-ing-down works... Tanning, fellmongering, and woolscouring Butter and cheese factories... Sawmills and sash and door factories Iron and brass foundries, boiler-making, machinists, &c. (not including Government railway workshops) Clothing and boot and shoe factories... Printing establishments (not including Government Printing Office) Breweries and malthouses ... Woollen-mills Gasworks Furniture and cabinetmaking Coach building and painting works ... Flax-mills Biscuit-factories ... Chaff-cutting works Bacon-curing Soap and candle works Aerated-water factories Agricultural-implement factories Brick, tile, and pottery works Spouting and ridging works Tinware-factories ... Sugar-boiling and confectionery works Eope and twine works Cycle-factories Chemical-works ... Fruit-preserving and jam-making works Lime and cement works Sail, tent, and oilskin works Bone-mills and other manure-works ... Cooperages Hosiery-factories ... Sauce and pickle works Hat and cap factories Fish curing and preserving works Brush and broom factories ... Baking-powder factories Basket and perambulator factories ... Venetian-blind factories ... ... Colonial-wine works £ 543,878 634,915 43,094 1,177,713 368,919 514,506 273,886 421,197 194,311 194,653 162,375 128,346 20,059 47,784 54,440 58,799 130,745 94,098 111,823 91,797 25,478 8,500 17,130 56,413 1,301 34,283 32,292 16,928 25,574 8,337 11,862 6,200 3,145 13,695 12,182 7,786 4,120 4,375 6,470 3,626 3,834,891 1,888,107 1,535,150 1,268,689 924,171 858,280 704,285 659,298 359,382 290,567 241,024 216,077 203,492 197,989 169,313 159,564 158,649 151,811 138,094 122,230 112,691 98,587 88,580 87,863 65,047 64,834 58,092 45,142 44,854 40,298 37,521 31,265 31,258 25,641 25,173 21,131 18,163 17,942 13,233 10,330 £ 3,291,013 1,253,192 1,492,056 90,976 555,252 343,774 430,399 238,101 165,071 95,914 78,649 87,731 183,433 150,205 114,873 100,765 27,904 57,713 26,271 30,433 87,213 90,087 71,450 31,450 63,746 30,551 25,800 28,214 19,280 31,961 25,659 25,065 28,113 11,946 12,991 13,345 14,043 13,567 6,763 6,704

Class. 1882. 1892. 1902. Increase Per Gent. 1892 over 1882. Increase Per Gent. 1902 over 1892. jetters posted 'elegrams Exchange subscribers loney-orders issued 'ostal notes ■avings-Bank deposits Liuount at credit of depositors lumber of deposits Excess of deposits over withdrawals 14,998,860 1,570,189 379 148,162 £1,325,852 £1,470,951 129,952 £183,253 25,530,804 1,904,143 3,811 199,438 240,019 £1,878,270 £2,863,670 186,945 £56,921 53,278,875 4,559,304 10,633 367,207 616,264 £5,069,619 £6,883,787 411,215 £360,848 70 21 906 35 Inf. 42 95 44 (Dec. 69) 109 139 179 84 157 170 140 120 534 levenue ... 'ost-offices Expenditure £264,635 900 £254,548 £318,759 1,263 £278,394 £525,099 1,807 £487,814 20 40 9 65 43 75