OUR INDUSTRIES.
It is interesting to note from the official statistics up to March 31st last the number of hands employed in the principal industries, and the wages paid during the year in the Dominion. These figures show: — Wages Employees. paid. £ Sawmilling, etc. 5,637 502,061 Engineering 4,223 378,307 Printing, stationery 3,608 325,746 Tailoring 4.954 300,800 Meat-freezing 3.140 288,215 Blacksmithing, coachbuildiug 4,082 234,689 Carpentering, join’y 3,052 219,721 Boots and shoes 3,168 214,250 Flaxmilling 3,541 199,189 Cabinetmaking, etc. 2,623 193,H3 Dress, milllinery 6,182 181,680 Bread, small goods 2,617 159,113 Plumbing, gas, tin 224 144,020 Butter and cheese 1,581 138,947 Fellmongering 1,505 136,526 Woollen milling 1,624 124, 171 Brick, tiles 1,340 116,666 Gas, coke, etc. 784 102,463 Read-made clothing 1,950 101,132 Brewing 9*5 90,417 Agricultural imp. 835 83,192 Saddlery 1,126 65,818 Biscuits, etc. 1,069 65,303 Ship-building 879 61,727 Butchers’ small goods 996 54,418 Aerated waters 732 49,894 Flour 4 SI 47,444 Cycle-engineering, etc. 9 61 4^,494 Watches and jewellery 759 42,892 Laundry, (European) 1,205 37.798 Shirts and underclothing 1,168 35,73 s
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 433, 8 September 1908, Page 2
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168OUR INDUSTRIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 433, 8 September 1908, Page 2
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