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Males. Females. Males. Females. Food Trades. Fruit-preserving Jam and condiment manufacturing .. Aerated-water and cordial manufacturing Brewing, malting, and bottling Coffee and spice manufacturing Tea-blending and -packing Sugar-refining .. Bread and confectionery manufacturing Baking-powder manufacturing Flour-milling Butter and cheese manufacturing Milk-preserving Meat-freezing and -preserving Sausage-casing manufacturing Fish-curing Bacon-curing 73 64 320 49 64 5 Wood-working Trades —continued. Joinery and sash- and door-making .. Sawmilling Coopering .. .." i. Boat-building .. .. Box-making .. .. ::.;..; Venetian-blind making Picture-frame making 596 2,673 83 33 32 68 20 542 56 154 151 1,533 8 9 1 143 Miscellaneous Trades^ Ammunition manufacturing Basket- and perambulator-making .. Brick and pottery manufacturing Broken road-metal preparing Brush- and broom-making Cement and lime manufacturing Chaff-cutting and corn-crushing Cigar- and cigarette-making Cork-cutting .. .. Cotton-waste preparing Dentistry .. Drug and herbal remedy manufacturing Dyeing and cleaning Engraving .. Flax-milling .. .." Gas manufacturing Gas-stove making .. ..' Gas- and oil-motor making Glass-bevelling .. Glass-bottle making Glue manufacturing Grain- and seed-cleaning and wooldumping Gum-sorting .. Ink-bottling Laundry-work Manure manufacturing Mat- and rug-making Monumental masonry Paint manufacturing ,. Paper-bag and -box making.. Paper-milling Photography .. Piano- and organ-building Printing and bookbinding Pumice-insulating.. Rag-sorting .. Rope- and twine-making Sheep-dip manufacturing Stone-cutting and -polishing Sail- and tent-making Ship-rigging Soap, candle, and tallow manufacturing Starch manufacturing .. Tanning, fellmongering, and woolscouring Tobacco-pipe repairing Watchmaking and jewellery manufacturing Wax-vesta manufacturing Wig-making .. Wire-mattrass making .. * 9 89 417 48 57 40 65 9 ■ 2 6 111 107 ■ 106 7 3 12 311 342 22 1,511 93 56 97 1 16 7 14 "33 "n Clothing Trades. Shirt-making Hat- and cap-making Hosiery-knitting Clothing manufacturing and tailoring Waterproof-clothing manufacturing .. Dressmaking .. .. Plain-sewing and underclothing manufacturing Calico-bag making Woollen-milling .. Flock-milling .. Corset- and belt-making Necktie-making Umbrella-making 46 32 34 1,366 14 519 58 461 2,392 197 2,990 45 11 24 1 13 23 . 204 316 6 10 . 2 ' 8 12 99 3 . ■ 1 1 650 6 1 27 584 1 24 9 6 Iron Trades.fj Engineering, boilermaking,|and blacksmithing Coachbuilding Plumbing, tinsmithing, gasfitting, and gunsmithing Cycle-engineering and sewing-machine repairing Agricultural-implement making Wire-working Nail-making Electrical engineering Range-making Galvanised-iron working Cutlery-grinding Eleotroplating Lead-pipe making Heel- and toe-plate making.. Mechanical engineering Engineering (Kauri Timber Company) 8 2,625 1,066 925 277 561 23 6 22 150 34 3 4 8 4 17 13 1 5 109 1 44 67 7 54 5 15 61 8Q 22 2,407 17 12 122 3 14 87 46 228 309 7 50 9 107 339 1 2 2 "56 5 24 1,426 2 Leather Trades. Saddle- and harness-making Boot manufacturing Portmanteau-making Whipthong-making 627 2,334 6 1 20 594 2 1 257 3 24 2 31 ' 97 Wood-working Trades. Cabinetmaking and upholstering Chair-making Wood-turning 849 8 51 43 ' Totals .. .. ' .." 27,429 9,489 Total number of employes under the Factories Act, 1895-96 .. .. .. 32,387 Total number of employes under the Factories Act, 1896-97 .. .. .. 36,918 Increase .. .. .. .. .. •• .. 4,531 Total number of factories, 1896-97 .. .. .. .. .. .. 5,177 Total number of factories, 1895-96 .. .. .. .. .. ' ..4,647 Increase .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 530 (These totals do not include employes in Government Railway Workshops see pp. 52 and 53.)