INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT – MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

Furniture and Fittings

All sizeable towns have at least one (usually small) furniture factory. The output is £11.8 million. Over 70 per cent of the furniture is made of wood, from 19 million bd. ft. of local timbers (rimu, tawa, Southland silver beech, and radiata pine); but some imported decorative timbers and fancy imported plywoods and veneers are used. Steel office furniture, venetian blinds, and wire and innerspring and soft-filled mattresses are also manufactured.

• INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT – MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES (Relating to 1962-63 Production Year)

• Tobacco

• Textiles

• Footwear, Clothing, and Made-up Textile Goods

• Wood Manufacture (Except Furniture)

• Furniture and Fittings

• Paper and Paper Products

• Printing, Publishing, and Allied Industries

• Leather and Leather Products (Except Footwear and Clothing)

• Rubber Products

• Chemical and Chemical Products

• Petroleum and Coal Products

• Non-Metallic Mineral Products (N.E.I.)

• Basic Metal Industries

• Metal Products (Except Machinery and Transport Equipment)

• Machinery (Except Electrical)

• Electrical Machinery and Appliances

• Transport Equipment and Repair

• Miscellaneous Products

Warning

This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

Up-to-date information can be found elsewhere in Te Ara.