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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 61

Brushware and Brooms

page 18

Brushware and Brooms.

Something has been done, but not very much, in the colonial manufacture of brushware and brooms. The import is still very large, reaching last year the value of £9,140. The division of labour has been so greatly perfected in this trade, and every branch of it has become so technically and strictly separate, that the State could best aid in promoting the industry at first by obtaining and publishing full information with regard to the trade in all its branches, and by offering a moderate bonus for the first large quantity of brushes or brooms, whether of hair or bristle, manufactured within the colony. In Victoria there were last year ten brush manufactories, employing 162 hands, and having £19,145 sunk in machinery, plant, land, and buildings.