Table No. XCV., OCCUPATIONS according to the CENSUS, 1881, arranged in ALPHABETICAL ORDER, showing the PERSONS engaged in them, and also the NUMBER of each SEX so engaged.
|
Persons. |
Males. |
Females. |
| Agricultural labourers |
7,857 |
7,550 |
307 |
| Animal food, dealing in |
1,875 |
1,695 |
180 |
| Animal matters, working and dealing in |
260 |
255 |
5 |
| Architects, surveyors, draughtsmen, &c., Government service |
103 |
103 |
|
| Arms, dealing in |
25 |
25 |
|
| Army officers |
9 |
9 |
|
| Arrowroot planters |
3 |
3 |
|
| Attendance, persons engaged in |
9,056 |
2,300 |
6,756 |
| Board and lodging, persons engaged in |
1,597 |
1,016 |
581 |
| Books, dealing in |
805 |
782 |
23 |
| Carriages, harness, and implements, dealing in |
971 |
969 |
2 |
| Carriers on roads |
3,115 |
3,112 |
3 |
| Carriers on seas and rivers |
1,911 |
1,903 |
8 |
| Carving and figures, dealing in |
18 |
15 |
3 |
| Chemicals, dealers in (not chemists) |
12 |
10 |
2 |
| Child, or scholar at home |
39,423 |
19,787 |
19,636 |
| Clerks, accountants, &c., Government service |
361 |
361 |
|
| Coal, mining for |
339 |
337 |
2 |
| Copper, mining for |
119 |
119 |
|
| Cotton planters |
|
|
|
| Criminals |
412 |
343 |
69 |
| Designs, medals, and dies, engaged in |
12 |
12 |
|
| Divinity |
374 |
232 |
142 |
| Dress, working and dealing in |
3,485 |
1,133 |
2,352 |
| Drinks and stimulants, dealing in |
776 |
724 |
52 |
| Education, persons engaged in |
1,365 |
594 |
771 |
| Engaged about animals |
1,452 |
1,449 |
3 |
| Engaged in land (not in cultivating or grazing) |
1,478 |
1,374 |
104 |
| Exhibitions, persons engaged in |
104 |
85 |
19 |
| Farmers and market gardeners |
13,183 |
10,123 |
3,058 |
| Fibrous materials, working in |
44 |
40 |
4 |
| Fine arts |
104 |
86 |
18 |
| Furniture, dealing in |
358 |
345 |
13 |
| Gardeners (not domestic servants) |
629 |
625 |
4 |
| Gold, mining for |
10,168 |
10,164 |
4 |
| Gold, silver, and precious stones, dealing in |
83 |
81 |
2 |
| Houses and buildings, engaged in |
3,458 |
3,391 |
67 |
| Labourers, branch of industry unspecified |
4,609 |
4,596 |
13 |
| Law, persons engaged in |
285 |
285 |
|
| Literature, persons engaged in |
39 |
38 |
1 |
| Local Government, officers of |
118 |
117 |
1 |
| Machines and tools, dealing in |
327 |
327 |
|
| Medicine, persons engaged in |
406 |
332 |
74 |
| Mercantile persons |
2,027 |
1,996 |
31 |
| Messengers, porters, &c. |
870 |
844 |
26 |
| Metals, other than gold or silver, dealing in |
1,634 |
1,631 |
3 |
| Mining for other metals |
31 |
31 |
|
| Music, persons engaged in |
138 |
58 |
80 |
| Musical instruments, dealing in |
16 |
16 |
|
| Naval officer |
1 |
1 |
|
| Others connected with agriculture |
114 |
114 |
|
| Others connected with defence |
1 |
1 |
|
| Others connected with grazing |
154 |
151 |
3 |
| Other general dealers |
1,809 |
1,519 |
290 |
| Other Government officers |
173 |
161 |
12 |
| Penal department, officers of |
54 |
50 |
4 |
| Persons of no occupation |
885 |
785 |
100 |
| Persons supported by funds, voluntary, or from revenue |
1,739 |
1,110 |
629 |
| Persons whose occupation is indefinite |
924 |
817 |
107 |
| Persons whose occupation is unspecified |
951 |
759 |
192 |
| Pictures and prints, dealing in |
21 |
20 |
1 |
| Police |
492 |
492 |
|
| Principal officers, Government service |
100 |
100 |
|
| Property or rank, persons of |
116 |
85 |
31 |
| Railways, employees on |
668 |
643 |
25 |
| Sailor, royal navy |
1 |
1 |
|
| Scholars not defined |
3,552 |
1,812 |
1,740 |
| Scholars, private schools |
6,716 |
2,947 |
3,769 |
| Scholars, state schools |
27,221 |
14,279 |
12,942 |
| Science, persons engaged in |
84 |
84 |
|
| Ships and boats, dealing in |
212 |
212 |
|
| Soldiers |
|
|
|
| Sons, daughters, relatives, and visitors |
10,091 |
1,268 |
8,823 |
| Squatters and graziers |
1,468 |
1,401 |
67 |
| Station managers, overseers, and superintendents |
887 |
887 |
|
| Station servants (not domestic) |
5,824 |
5,812 |
12 |
| Stone, clay, earthenware and glass, working in |
2,063 |
2,061 |
2 |
| Storage, engaged in |
342 |
339 |
3 |
| Sugar-growers and coffee-planters |
187 |
183 |
4 |
| Surgical instruments, dealing in |
4 |
4 |
|
| Tackle for sports and games, dealing in |
4 |
3 |
1 |
| Textile fabrics, dealing in |
645 |
507 |
138 |
| Tin, mining for |
1,121 |
1,121 |
|
| Vegetable food, dealing in |
837 |
742 |
95 |
| Vegetable matters, working and dealing in |
2,906 |
2,898 |
8 |
| Vignerons |
31 |
31 |
|
| Volunteers |
13 |
13 |
|
| Watches, philosophical instruments, dealing in |
100 |
99 |
1 |
| Water, working and dealing in |
388 |
388 |
|
| Wives and widows |
24,782 |
|
24,782 |
| TOTAL |
213,525 |
125,325 |
88,200 |