DEVELOPING OF DAIRYING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1437, 11 May 1912, Page 8

DEVELOPING OF DAIRYING.

SOME HUGE FIGURES. Further returns in connection with the industrial census, published in the Gazette, show that since, tho last census.in 1905 the wages of employers m the dairy industry have increased by .£38,938. There are, according to the return, 338 factories, an increase of 74 in five years, and of those C 8 are scheduled as individual, 2b firm or limited partnership, 118 belong to public or private registered companies, and 12G are co-operative or miscellaneous. There aro 1504 hands employed as asainst 148* in 1905, and 1188 in 1900: The stronghold of the home separator system is Auckland, 1762 out of a total of 2418, bcinE in that province. Wellington comes noxt with 292, and Nelson, 108, is the only other province which runs into clouMo figures. The development of the industry is shown by the amount of capital invested in dairy factories and machinery. This totals ,£954,122, being, land .£110,360, buildings £381,308 and plant and machinery £4G2,4r>4. The total for 190 a was £61G,2GG, made up as under :-Land, .£50,008; buildings, .£215,178; and plant and machinery, .£345,080. The valuo of tho output and wages paid at the factories in the various provinces last year were:— Value of Waffes output. paid. 36VT27 31,7781,209,243 44,898 Hawke'a Bar 151.087 9,993 Wellington 769,235 37,331 Marlborough 2!),439 1,877 Nelson 50,839 2,858 Westland ' 21,711 1,2(3 Strbury .: mW 8.«8 ntneo 233,900 14,352 Southland" 279,762 15,435 Total 3,919,184 169,380 The wages paid in 1905 totalkd £130,442 when tho value of tho output was I ,£2,581,639 ■■ '