WAGES IN NEW ZEALAND.
A very detailed and i.ulky report is to hand from the Department of Labour. We gather from it that the total amount of wages paid in New Zealand to persons engaged in certain groups of industries during the year 1906-7 was £5,319,019. The certain groups, and the sums paid in each instance, were as follow: —Food traded, £1,015,700; wood-working trades, £935,338; iron and metal trades. £896,057; clothing trades, £781,372; printing and stationery trades, £325,746; leather trades, £303,253; miscellaneous trades, £288,043; fiaxmilling, £199,189; stone, clay and allied trades, £187,532; hide and wool working trades, £136,526; light, heat and power production, £123,016; chemical and by-products trade;-, £65,522; shipWrighting trades, £61,727. The figures quoted are interesting, but we should like to know how much the Government spend in connection with the writing, preparing, collecting of data, illustrating and printing of all the innumerable reports and publications which are authorised during the year. A considerable sum must be wasted every year in connection with the publication of departmental reports alone.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9143, 20 July 1908, Page 4
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170WAGES IN NEW ZEALAND. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9143, 20 July 1908, Page 4
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