The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 23
Part VI
Part VI.
Summary.
Briefly summed up, the following are the principal ways in which the industries of New Zealand can be promoted:—
1884. | 1883. | |
Agricultural implements | £16,412 | £47,432 |
Apparel | 197,789 | 263,849 |
Aerated waters | 2,481 | 2,863 |
Boots and shoes | 143,840 | 168,383 |
Baskets and wickerware | 1,139 | 1,549 |
Biscuits | 1,422 | 1,431 |
Butter | 841 | 653 |
Candles | 74,452 | 45,225 |
Carpets | 28,376 | 41,267 |
Carriages | 8,305 | 6,087 |
Carts and wagons | 1,773 | 1,885 |
Chaff | 2,599 | 2,144 |
Coals | 191,994 | 155,668 |
Coke | 862 | 1,188 |
Cordage | 14,236 | 16,615 |
Earthenware | 24,738 | 42,396 |
Fish—Dried | 8,613 | 7,470 |
Fish—Potted | 42,473 | 43,616 |
Flour | 18,090 | 11,146 |
Furniture | 48,079 | 65,571 |
Hardware and ironmongery | 177,910 | 245,560 |
Hops | 5,081 | 11,155 |
Jams and jellies | 10,552 | 18,759 |
Leather | 75,223 | 65,475 |
Linseed—Grain | 51 | 1,036 |
Linseed—Meal | 143 | 359 |
Linseed—Oil | 17,350 | 20,346 |
Machinery—Agricultural | 81,312 | 86,204 |
Machinery—Steam engines and boilers | 39,347 | 40,364 |
Malt | 467 | 613 |
Meats—Potted and preserved | 1,129 | 1,920 |
Pickles | 6,181 | 5,226 |
Picture frames and mouldings | 3,243 | 3,779 |
Provisions—Preserved and salted | 927 | 719 |
Railway—Carriages | 8,595 | 756 |
Railway—Locomotives | 9,460 | 23,542 |
Railway—Trucks | 1,824 | .. |
Saddlery | 32,204 | 43,871 |
Sauce | 10,898 | 11,315 |
Soap—common | 1,836 | 833 |
Sulphuric acid | 157 | 363 |
Tinware | 4,932 | 6,117 |
Tobacco—Unmanufactured | 1,605 | 81,705 |
Tobacco—Manufactured | 62,246 | 81,705 |
Tobacco—Cigars | 23,119 | 25,809 |
Tobacco—Cigarettes | 7,910 | 8,087 |
Twine—Ordinary | 7,974 | 9,625 |
Vegetables—Fresh | 5,075 | 6,012 |
Vegetables—Preserved | 526 | 853 |
Woollens | 75,151 | 100,222 |
Woollens, Blankets | 25,370 | 29,702 |
Total value | £1,526,312 | £1,776,765 |
Total decrease | £250,453, or 14 per cent. |
1884. | 1883. | |
£ | £ | |
Acid—Tartaric | 9,370 | 9,079 |
Beeswax | 435 | 118 |
Brushware and brooms | 9,140 | 10,759 |
Cement | 62,075 | 52,902 |
China and porcelain ware | 10,617 | 13,127 |
Cartridges | 542 | 419 |
Cartridges—Cases | 1,089 | 674 |
Confectionery | 15,818 | 14,886 |
Drugs | 35,567 | 36,167 |
Glass and glassware | 40,044 | 55,064 |
Glue | 1,494 | 1,899 |
Maize | 27 461 | |
Peas—split | 850 | 1,182 |
Hats—straw | 11,365 | 12,272 |
Honey | 334 | 294 |
Manure—Bonedust | 23,057 | 17,934 |
Matches and vestas | 24,635 | 23,448 |
Maizena and cornflour | 11,575 | 10,285 |
Milk—Preserved | 12,823 | 14,409 |
Mustard | 7,857 | 9,626 |
Pipes—Tobacco | 7,311 | 6,900 |
Salt | 14,990 | 12,389 |
Starch | 6,717 | 6,195 |
Sulphur | 2,543 | 1,876 |
Varnish | 12,794 | 14,761 |
Vinegar | 9,649 | 10,016 |
332,718 | 337,102 | |
Sugar—Raw and refined | 694,598 | 621,376 |
Iron—Pig | 10,945 | 14,357 |
Iron—Bar, bolt, and rod | 65,583 | 65,874 |
Printing paper | .67,840 | 67,242 |
Silk | 8,392 | 12,739 |
Olives—Oil | 5,467 | 5,764 |
Total value | £1,185,543 | £1,124,454 |
Total increase | £61,089, or 6 per cent. |
Note.
The author of this essay has to acknowledge his obligations to a large number of correspondents in various parts of the colony, who have very kindly and promptly furnished him with information upon colonial industries. For the statistics he is indebted to the Registrar-General's Statistics of the Colony of New Zealand; to the Import, Export, and Shipping Returns for 1883 and 1884; to other Parliamentary papers relating to the development of colonial industries; and to that invaluable publication, Hayter's Victorian Year-Book.