The Daily Telegraph. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1883.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3821, 15 October 1883, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1883.

The Christchurch Industrial Association is an institution that is doing most useful Avork. In the annual report of its committee avc notice that tho subjects dealt Avith Avero tho patent laws of this colony, new industries, the state of trade, and the principal events of the year. The report includes remarks on the different industries, such as pump manufacturing, the avoollcu industry, carpet making, boot, shoe, and leather' trade, implement manufacturing, printing, bookbinding*, and lithography, clay and pottery industry, range making, cheese, butter, and bacon, and coal mining. From the report avc learn that numerous neAV industries arc springing up all over the colony, tho folloAving being mentioned :—

AVoollen manufactures, tho moat preserving industry, choose and butter making and bacon-curing factories (on the American principle), sulphuric acid, artificial manures, linseed oil and flax fibre industry, reaper and binder tAvine, curled hair, collar and saddlo manufacturing, cardboard-box making, barbed wire, tin-plate, and sheet-iron AA'orks, pump making, electro-plating, jam, pickle, and preserve manufactories, hat and clothing factories, carpet weaving. Tho hop growing in the Nelson province and other places north of Canterbury is becoming a large and most profitable industry, ' and the manufacturing* of oil from the feet jof sheep is occupying tho attention of the i people in several places in the colony. Glue is also made to some considerable extent. Starch factories arc coming into existence. Mr Jenkins has started to make organs in Christchurch, and has recently turned out an excellent ono for the Avonsidc Church. It is in tho opinion of the Industrial Association's committee that many other ucav industries could bo started and carried on Avith profit. For instance rolling mills would pay to Avork up scrap iron, Avhicli is at present gathered up at £1 per ton and sent to Melbourne or Sydney, and worked over and sold at from £12 to £13 per ton, a prico that Avould leavo a large margin of profit to a company that might start here, as there are large amounts of scrap to be obtained in New Zealand, taking into consideration that Avhich could bo procured from the raihvays. Then again, glass bottles should be made hero successfully, as there is plenty of glass sand to be obtained on the Kaiapoi and the New Brighton beaches ; also paper making should bo successfully carried on here, as there is plenty of refuse at tho flax factories suitable for paper making that the flax workers would be glad to give aAvay, as it costs them considerable trouble to rid themselves of it at present. Tho committee also think that the Government should have the rolling stock for tho raihvays made in the colony, as they aro doing in tho Australian Colonies, and by so doing- retain more of the borrowed money in the country, and keep a larger working- population profitably employed. If this was done, the committee feel that the depression that now exists would soon be lightened, and avc should soon have a revival in trade.