New Zealand Gazette – 1892 – No. 50

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✨ Census Occupations Statistics



OCCUPATIONS.—ORDERS.

TABLE II.—Showing the Occupations of the Population at different Ages, Males and Females (exclusive of Maoris), on the 5th April, 1891, arranged in Twenty-four Orders.

Class. Order. Occupations (arranged in Twenty-four Orders). Males. Females. Total both Sexes.
Under 5 Years. 5 and under 15 Years. 15 and under 20 Years.
Total population 42,259 84,249 32,579
I. 1 Persons engaged in Government* (not otherwise classed), defence, law, and protection .. 16 211
II. 2 Persons ministering to religion, charity, health, science, education, and art .. 74 703
III† 3 Persons engaged in the supply of board and lodging, and in rendering personal service for which remuneration is usually paid .. 289 698
4 Persons performing offices in connection with the exchange, valuation, insurance, lease, loan, or custody of money, houses, land, or property-rights .. 15 309
5 Persons dealing in art or mechanic productions in which matters of various kinds are employed in combination .. 72 177
6 Persons engaged in the sale, hire, or exchange of textile fabrics and dress, and of fibrous materials .. 81 545
7 Persons engaged in dealing in food, drinks, narcotics, and stimulants .. 336 1,192
8 Persons engaged in dealing in and treating animals, and dealing in animal and vegetable substances (excluding dealers in food) .. 33 174
9 Persons engaged in dealing in minerals and other materials mainly used for fuel and light .. 6 23
10 Persons engaged in dealing in minerals other than for fuel .. 19 158
11 Persons engaged as general dealers, or in undefined mercantile pursuits .. 217 1,115
12 Persons engaged in storage .. 7 105
13 Persons engaged in the transport of passengers, goods, or communications .. 417 1,529
IV† 14 Persons engaged in connection with the manufacture of, or in other processes relating to, art and mechanic productions in which materials of various kinds are employed in combination .. 277 1,973
15 Persons engaged in connection with the manufacture of, or in repairs, cleansing, or in other processes relating to, textile fabrics, dress and fibrous materials .. 435 2,087
16 Persons engaged in connection with the manufacture of, or in other processes relating to, food, drink, narcotics, and stimulants .. 160 741
17 Persons (not otherwise classed) engaged in manufacture or other processes connected with animal and vegetable substances .. 111 506
18 Persons engaged in the alteration, modification, or manufacture of, or other processes relating to, metals or mineral matters .. 159 1,313
19 Persons engaged in the making or repairing of buildings, roads, railways, docks, earthworks, &c., in the disposal of silt, dead matter, or refuse, or in mechanical operations or labour the nature of which is undefined .. 153 1,117
V. 20 Industrial workers imperfectly defined .. 302 2,535
VI. 21 Persons directly engaged in the cultivation of land, or in rearing or breeding animals, or in obtaining raw products from natural sources .. 3,867 12,105
22 Persons whose occupations are undefined or unknown, embracing those who derive incomes from sources which cannot be directly related to any other class .. 47 262
VII. 23 Persons dependent upon natural guardians .. 42,218 76,635
24 Persons dependent upon the State, or upon public or private support .. 41 521

*The number included as belonging to Government is only a residue. See footnote to Table I.

† Attention is called to the fact that the numbers in the various orders of Class III. (Commercial) include dealers only, but not manufacturers or makers. These last are included in the orders of Class IV. (Industrial).

[965] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [JUNE 23.]



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