THE COLONY’S BREWERIES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 883, 7 February 1907, Page 21

THE COLONY’S BREWERIES.

The number of breweries in the colony shown in the census returns for 1906 was somewhat fewer than that returned ten years previously in 1896, but the hands employed were more numerous and the quantity of beer manufactured considerably greater. While in the year 1895 there were 5.249,278 gallons brewed, the output for 1905 amounted to 7,634,362 gallons, being nearly 2,400,000 gallons of increase in a ten-year period. The money value rose from £336,734 £572, 579The quantities of beer on which excise duty was paid for consumption were, for 1895, 4,936,400 gallons, and 7,796,160 gal'ons for 1905. These quantities are in

close agreement with those returned in this census as manufactured. - The imported beer entered at the Customs for home consumption only increased in quantity from 201,770 gallons in 1895 to 218,270 gallons in 1905 which tends to show that the colonial made beer is by degrees displacing. the beer brought from abroad.- In the year 1892 261,394 gallons were brought into New Zealand, when the population was only 650,433 persons. The consumption of beer per head of population, which was 7,421 gallons in the year 1895, reached 9,150 in the year 1900, since when it has been almost stationary, the figures for 1905 being 9,212. 1906. 1896. Breweries 72 85 Hands employed 731 465 Amount paid in wages £92,308 £57,327 Value of land £82,590 £51,533 Value buildings £156,54! £ 11 5>°33 Value machinery and p ant £9s> Bo ° £63> 8 5 0 The following figures show the quantity and value of beer made in 1895 and 1905 1905. 1895. gals. gals. Quantity 7,634,362 5,249,278 Value £5 1 2,5i9 £336,734