New Zealand Gazette – 1907 – No. 73

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✨ Census Occupation Statistics



Census, 1906.—Occupations of the People.

Registrar-General’s Office, Wellington, 5th August, 1907.

THE accompanying tables, showing the summarised results of the Census taken in April, 1906, as regards the occupations of the people, arranged in classes, orders, and sub-orders, are published for general information. The details of occupations, showing the numbers in full for each, are too lengthy for publication in Gazette, but will be printed in extenso in the Census volume.

E. J. von DADELSZEN, Registrar-General.

OCCUPATIONS.—CLASSES.

TABLE I.—Showing (exclusive of Maoris) the Occupations of the People as on the 29th April, 1906, arranged in Eight Classes.

Class. Occupations (arranged in Eight Classes). Males. Females. Totals both Sexes.
Under 5 Years. 5 and under 15 Years. 15 and under 20 Years. 20 and under 25 Years. 25 and under 45 Years. 45 and under 65 Years. 65 Years and upwards. Unspecified. Total Males. Under 5 Years. 5 and under 15 Years. 15 and under 20 Years. 20 and under 25 Years. 25 and under 45 Years. 45 and under 65 Years. 65 Years and upwards. Unspecified. Total Females.
I SECTION A.—BREADWINNERS.
PROFESSIONAL.*—Embracing all persons, not otherwise classed, mainly engaged in the government and defence of the country, and in satisfying the moral, intellectual, and social wants of its inhabitants .. .. .. .. 104 1,405 2,299 8,043 3,885 825 17 16,578 .. 33 1,073 2,342 5,221 1,614 224 13 10,520 27,098
II DOMESTIC.—Embracing all persons engaged in the supply of board and lodging, and in rendering personal services for which remuneration is usually paid .. .. .. .. 159 856 1,328 4,262 2,305 666 17 9,593 .. 791 7,481 8,309 10,413 2,801 383 32 30,210 39,803
III COMMERCIAL.—Embracing all persons directly connected with the hire, sale, transfer, distribution, storage, and security of property and materials .. .. .. .. 780 6,302 6,412 19,331 8,134 2,337 43 43,339 .. 91 2,181 2,324 2,567 1,018 443 5 8,629 51,968
IV TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION.—Embracing all persons engaged in the transport of persons or goods, or in effecting communications .. .. 449 2,923 4,530 14,099 4,927 680 29 27,637 .. 7 98 217 346 69 11 1 749 28,386
V INDUSTRIAL.—Embracing all persons, not otherwise classed, who are principally engaged in various works of utility, or in specialities connected with the manufacture, construction, modification, or alteration of materials, so as to render them more available for the various uses of man, but excluding, as far as possible, all who are mainly or solely engaged in the service of commercial interchange .. .. .. 974 13,722 18,075 48,951 19,133 4,813 100 105,768 .. 359 6,431 5,623 5,322 639 104 9 18,487 124,255
VI AGRICULTURAL, PASTORAL, MINERAL, AND OTHER PRIMARY PRODUCERS.—Embracing all persons mainly engaged in the cultivation or acquisition of food products, and in obtaining other raw materials from natural sources .. .. 2,725 14,439 16,008 46,956 25,319 9,295 164 114,906 .. 284 623 337 826 1,050 345 2 3,467 118,373
VII INDEFINITE.—Embracing all persons who derive incomes from services rendered, but the direction of which services cannot be exactly determined .. .. .. .. .. 9 54 408 1,010 4,524 15 6,020 .. .. 27 702 462 714 1,875 2 3,182 9,202
  • In the Professional Class are included persons returned as “Government officers”; but the figures given under this heading do not represent the full number employed by Government, the principle adopted having been to complete other groups where the scheme of classification required it, rather than to show the total number paid by Government. Thus, Postal and Telegraph officers are classified under “Transport and Communication,” in Class IV. Railway employees are similarly dealt with. The full statement of persons paid by Government but not included in Order I would comprise some or all of the following: Persons connected with charitable or benevolent institutions, hospitals, museums, education, life insurance, railways, harbours, lighthouses, post and telegraph, and mines, also civil engineers, electricians, surveyors and assistants, architects and draughtsmen, printers and binders in the Government Printing Office, and artisans in Government railway workshops.


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🏛️ Census Occupations Data Publication

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
5 August 1907
Census, Occupations, Statistics, Population, Professional, Domestic, Commercial, Transport, Industrial, Agricultural
  • E. J. von Dadelnzen, Registrar-General