There are two other industries which like shipbuilding have grown out of the small undertakings established to supply local foreign requirement, viz., brewing and the manufacture of aerated waters. The former of these was started many years ago by Mr. H. Evans, and on his retirement the business was taken over by the Hall & Holtz Ca-operative Ca., Limited, who largely increased it and ex: ported the beer to Hongkong and other ports in considerable quantities. The concern has lately passed into fresh hands and its prospects are good, as the demand for good beer is very large. The other industry, viz., the manufacture of aerated waters is in a very flourishing condition, It was begun by Messrs. Llewellyn Ca. very many years ago and has been carried on successfully, not only by them but by the other large chemists and dragists, and_in a small way by numerous Shinese. Last year, however, a new deture was taken by the Aquarius Water Yo. who erected special works and commenced the manufacture on a lange scale under the management of Messrs. Caldbeck, Mnegregor & Ca., and this industry is therefore emerging, if it has not already emerged, from the class of local industries to the diss of those which manufacture for an extensive area and whose existence justifies the application of the term manu-Tacturing centre to the place where they are carried on.
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