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Total number of factories registered during the period of one year and three months (January, 1901, to March, 1902) .. .. .. .. .. 7,203 Persons employed therein .. .. .. .. .. .. 55,395

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Males. Females. Males. Females. Food Trades. Fruit-preserving and condiment-manu-facturing 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 Sausage-casing preparing Meat and fish preserving and baconcuring Wine and cider manufacturing 174 436 763 82 158 171 2,936 124 2 4 11 380 Miscellaneous. Ammunition-making Artificial-limb making Brick and pottery making Broken road-metal preparing Brush and broom making Basket and perambulator making Chaff-cutting Cement and lime manufacturing Cigar and cigarette manufacturing .. Cork-cutting Carpet-weaving Dentistry Drug and herbal-remedy manufacturing Dyeing and cleaning Engraving and electroplating Feather-cleaning Fireworks-manufacturing Fire-kindler making Flax-milling Gas-manufacturing.. Glass-bevelling Glue-manufacturing Grain and seed cleaning and wooldumping Gum-sorting .. .. Gunsmithing Ink-manufacturing Laundry-work Lens-grinding Manure-manufacturing Mat and rug making Monumental masonry Organ-building Paint and varnish manufacturing Paper bag and box manufacturing Paper-milling Photography Piano-manufacturing Picture-frame making Printing, bookbinding, and stationerymanufacturing Pumice-grinding Quilt-making Rag-sorting and bottle-cleaning Rope and twine manufacturing Sheep-dip manufacturing Stone cutting and polishing Sail and tent making Soap, tallow, and candle manufac turing Starch-manufacturing Surgical-implement manufacturing .. Tanning, fellmongering, and woolscouring Toy and door-mat making Watchmaking and jewelling.. Wax-vesta manufacturing Wire-mattress making Wig-making 20 2 793 66 96 148 84 194 15 5 8 306 167 25 28 88 4 "57 10 '35 13 438 871 120 2,021 38 8 55 62 13 46 17 6 7 Iron Trades. Engineering, &c. Coachbuilding and blaoksmithing Plumbing, tinsmithing, and gasfitting Cycle-engineering and sewing-machine repairing Agricultural - implement manufacturing Wire-working Electrical engineering and lighting .. Range-making Galvanised-iron working Cutlery-grinding Heel and toe plate making Ship-repairing 3,676 3,404 1 ,325 518 6 3 1,196 461 10 9 223 1 1 1 1 11 473 30 81 112 75 8 8 107 154 21 2 148 5 44 19 92 13 20 41 73 139 13 52 2,651 582 2 17 Leather Trades. Saddle and harness making Boot-manufacturing Portmanteau-making 904 2,365 33 38 795 8 120 21 187 7 556 Clothing Trades. Shirt-making* Tailoring and clothing-manufacturing* Dressmaking* Hat and cap making Hosiery-knitting Waterproof-clothing manufacturing .. Plain-sewing and underclothing-manu-facturing Calico-bag making Woollen-milling Flock-milling Corset and belt making Umbrella-making .. 33 2,000 55 27 19 8 759 3,312 4,337 115 464 162 127 23 6 159 7 17 138 405 3 67 4 8 823 15 20 715 34 2 1,740 7 "lO "l8 19 Wood-wcrrking Trades. Cabinetmaking and upholstering Wood-turning and box-making Joinery and sash and door making and sawmilling Coopering Boatbuilding Venetian-blind making Billiard-table making 1,569 75 5,107 4 503 30 29 3 6 118 70 Totals 41,783 1,703 18,612 97 117 OS 6 Hands employed in the New Zealand Railwav Workshops Grand totals 1 43.986 13,612 * In Timaru the tailoresses are also dressmakers and shirt-makers.