SummaryIt is well known that the four main districts, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, together with Lower Hutt, employ a high proportion of the workers engaged in manufacturing activities. The use of unweighted percentages shows that Auckland has more than half the number of persons employed in these districts, and one‐third of all the workers. This, however, is not surprising for Auckland is the largest centre of population. On the other hand, the use of weighted quotients shows that Lower Hutt is, for its size of working population, a highly concentrated industrial area, with fifty percent of all persons working in the district employed in manufacturing. The same method also introduces the Hastings district as one of the five in which manufacturing has more than its proportionate share of all employees, whereas Wellington has fewer workers in industry than might otherwise be expected. On the other hand it has a larger proportion than elsewhere of persons engaged in commercial and administrative activities. The use of location factors enables objective comparisons to be made be‐between the various districts, and these in turn could be used in planning future development. The method is not specific enough to allow precise statements to be made about future development, because the groups of industry used are broad and administrative districts arc necessarily adopted to describe industrial areas. Its tentative use here, however, serves to indicate the direction along which further research is necessary to explain the present patterns of location more precisely and to forecast future and desirable trends in industrial localisation in New Zeal
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