Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1897, Wellington

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Industries.

The progress made in the settlement of the country could not be regarded as satisfactory page 207 without a corresponding development in local manufactures. This has been very marked. Comparing the results as tabulated by the Registrar-General in the years 1878 and 1891, in the former year there were 137 factories of all kinds in the district. In the latter the number was 333. These workshops found employment for 4,281 hands, who received £312,251 per annum in wages. The approximate value of the manufactured goods produced was £1,412,465, and the value of land, buildings, machinerv and plant was estimated at £893,037.