Manufactories.

Excluding mines and quarries, the total number of manufactories in Canterbury in 1896 was 448, employing 4,944 males and 1,110 females, their annual wages respectively being £376,748 and £34,973; the number of engines 296, of 4,343-horse power.

The total value of manufactures for 1895 was £2,629,822, and the value of land, machinery, and buildings was £1,178,112. Included in the above were 20 printing, 9 agricultural-implement, 27 coach building and-painting, 29 fellmongering, tanning, currying, and wool-scouring establishments, 5 ship-and boat-building works, 12 sail-and oilskin-factories, 3 woollen-mills, 5 clothing, 17 boot-and shoe factories, 4 rope-and-twine works, 5 flax-mills, 5 boiling-down, meat-preserving, and freezing works, 14 cheese-and butter-factories, 32 grain-mills, 3 fruit-and jam-making works, 16 breweries, 10 malt-houses, 30 aerated waters and cordial works 6 sauce-and pickle-making factories, 5 soap-and candle-works, 22 sawmills and sash-and door factories, 4 gasworks, 15 brick, tile, and pottery manufactories, and 10 iron-and brass-foundries.