For the June 2008 quarter compared with the March 2008 quarter (on a seasonally adjusted basis):
- Manufacturing sales volumes decreased 1.0 percent.
- Excluding meat and dairy product manufacturing, volumes increased 1.8 percent.
- Manufacturing sales were relatively flat, down 0.6 percent.
- Excluding meat and dairy product manufacturing, sales rose 3.1 percent.
- Meat and dairy industry sales fell 8.9 percent while basic metal industry sales rose 27 percent.

| Geoff Bascand |
15 September 2008 |
| Government Statistician |
ISSN 1178-024X |