List of Charts

Chart No.	Title	Years Covered	Page
1	Unemployment and Assisted Employment—Males	1931–39	6
2	Public Works Employment	1935–40	8
3	Social Security Benefits and Pensions	1931–40	12
4	Changes in Farm Mechanisation	1929–40	15
5	Imports and Exports (£ million)	1929–40	17
6	Net Overseas Assets of the Banks	1934–39	18
7	Volume of Manufacturing Production	1928–29 to 1939–40	19
8	Reserve Bank Advances to the State	1936–39	21
9	Retail Prices—All Groups (Base: First Quarter 1949 = 1000)	1920–39	23
10	Changes in Volume of Goods Available (in 1938–39 prices)	1928–29 to 1939–40	24
11	Exports of Apples and Pears	1936–51	66
12	Men in the Armed Forces	1939–46	71
13	Numbers in New Zealand Armed Forces (including women)	1939–46	72
14	United States Forces in New Zealand	1942–45	74
15	New Zealand and United States Forces in New Zealand	1939–46	75
16	Expenditure through War Expenses Account	1939–40 to 1949–50	76
17	Numbers Unemployed or in Subsidised Employment	1939–45	86
18	Numbers of Women per Hundred Men Employed in Factory Production	1934–35 to 1947–48	91
19	Manpower Changes affecting Civilian Employment	Sep 1939 to Sep 1942	104
20	Volume of Imports (1936–38=100)	1936–41	106
21	Terms of Trade (1936–38=100)	1936–50	107
22	Imports and Reserve Stocks—Corrugated Iron	1936–41	113
23	Imports and Reserve Stocks—Gypsum	1936–41	114

24	Imports and Reserve Stocks—Raw Sugar	1936–41	115
25	Imports and Reserve Stocks—Rock Phosphate	1936–41	116
26	Imports and Reserve Stocks—Motor Spirits	1936–41	118
27	Goods Available for Use in New Zealand	1936–37 to 1949–50	122
28	Lend-Lease and Reciprocal Aid	1941–42 to 1946–47	126
29	Imports from Principal Supplying Countries	1937–46	127
30	Imports Classified by Purpose	1937–46	130
31	Supplies of Rubber and Tyres	1936–45	141
32	Wheat Supplies	1936–48	143
33	Persons Engaged in Manufacturing	1929–30 to 1946–47	150
34	Changes in the Manufacturing Labour Force	1938–39 to 1945–46	155
35	Overtime Worked in Factories	1934–35 to 1947–48	157
36	Numbers engaged in Woollen Mills	1936–37 to 1947–48	162
37	Numbers engaged in Clothing Factories	1936–37 to 1947–48	164
38	Numbers engaged in Footwear Manufacture	1936–37 to 1947–48	165
39	Textiles, Clothing and Footwear Manufacture (Volume of Production of Selected Items)	1939–40 to 1947–48	166
40	Volume of Manufacturing Production (Base 1938–39=100)	1936–37 to 1948–49	179
41	Areas Topdressed	1935–49	197
42	Number of Sheep for Each Dairy Cow in Milk	1936–48	198

43	Butter and Cheese Production	1936–37 to 1946–47	202
44	Livestock Slaughterings	1939–40 to 1946–47	207
45	Production and Exports of Meat	1939–40 to 1945–46	208
46	Breeding Ewes, Other Sheep and Dairy Cows	1940–45	214
47	Lambs Tailed and Lambs Slaughtered	1936–37 to 1944–45	215
48	Output of Principal Farm Products	1939–40 to 1945–46	219
49	Supplies of Selected Building Materials	1937–39	222
50	Defence Construction Expenditure	1939–40 to 1945–46	230
51	Number of Permits issued for New Dwellings	1937–38 to 1947–48	243
52	Numbers engaged on Defence Construction Work	1939–45	245
53	Production of Sawn Timber	1934–35 to 1948–49	247
54	Demands of War on the National Output	1938–39 to 1946–47	256
55	Revenue from Taxation	1935–36 to 1945–46	264
56	Changes in the Public Debt	1939–48	266
57	How the National Output of goods and services was used	1938–39 to 1946–47	276
58	Price and Wage changes before Economic Stabilisation	1939–42	286

59	Aggregate Private Income and Goods available	1931–32 to 1945–46	291
60	Price changes after Stabilisation	1942–45	315
61	Price and Wage changes after Stabilisation	1942–45	323
62	The Gap between Incomes and Goods available	1938–39 to 1947–48	335
63			336
64			339
65	Volume of Exports	1936–47	369
66	Volume of Imports	1939–45	372
67	Net overseas assets of the Banking System	1934–46	385
68	Turn-round of Overseas Vessels	1936–49	402
69	Railways Operations	1938–39 to 1948–49	408
70	Output of Coal	1936–49	413
71	Imports of Motor Spirits	1934–48	418
72	Electricity and Gas generated	1927–28 to 1962–63	426
73	Sales of Electric Power	1938–39 to 1945–46	433
74	Employment in Local Authorities	1937–38 to 1947–48	439
75	Volume of Production	1938–39 to 1946–47	441
76	Marriage and Birth Rates	1927–63	445
77	Labour Force Changes in Industrial Groups: Males at Census Dates	1936–56	494
78	Progress of Demobilisation	1940–47	503
79	Annual Expenditure on Rehabilitation	1944–63	511
80	Retail Prices	1914–63	537
81	Age Groups as a Percentage of Total Population	1923–62	541
82	Social Security Benefits and Pensions as a Percentage of National Income	1940–63	545
83	Trading Bank Advances	1939–63	547
84	Imports and Exports	1940–63	552

85	Net Cost of Invisibles as a percentage of Export Earnings	1950–51 to 1962–63	553
86	Direction of Trade	Pre-War Post-War 1960s	557
87	Changes in Farming and Manufacturing	1951–61	560
88	Labour Force Changes	1947–64	564
89	Value added in Manufacturing as a percentage of Value of Imports	1923–24 to 1963–64	572

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