SUMMARY TABLE V. SHOWING the OCCUPATION of MALES in the Seaport Towns, Gold Fields, and Rural Districts respectively.
OCCUPATIONS. NUMBER OF MALES. PROPORTION OF MALES.
Seaport Towns. Gold Fields. Rural Districts. Seaport Towns. Gold Fields. Rural Districts.
CLASS I.—Persons engaged in the General or Local Government and Defence of the Country :—
Officers in the Civil and Military Service, Judges, Magistrates, Soldiers, Police, Messengers, and Workmen 1,725 1,227 716 2.35 2.33 1.99
CLASS II.—Persons in the Learned Professions (with their immediate subordinates) not in Government employment :—
Sub-Class 1. Clergymen and Ministers 106 16 40 0.17 0.03 0.11
Sub-Class 2. Church Officers—Lay Readers, Sextons, and persons employed about Churches 24 3 4 0.04 0.01 0.01
Sub-Class 3. Physicians and Surgeons 262 179 82 0.43 0.34 0.23
Sub-Class 4. Apothecaries, Dispensing Chemists, Assistants in Surgeries, Hospitals, &c. 188 55 22 0.31 0.10 0.06
Sub-Class 5. Lawyers—Barristers, Attorneys, Solicitors, Conveyancers and Proctors 172 29 19 0.28 0.05 0.05
Sub-Class 6. Law Clerks and persons employed in Lawyers' Offices 143 4 8 0.23 0.01 0.02
CLASS III.—Persons engaged in Literature, Fine Arts and Sciences :—
Sub-Class 1. Teachers in Schools, Governesses, Professors of Music, Drawing, &c. 147 26 121 0.24 0.05 0.33
Sub-Class 2. Architects, Civil Engineers, Editors, Reporters, Painters (Artists), Photographers, &c. 398 84 66 0.56 0.16 0.18
CLASS IV.—Trading—Persons who buy, sell, keep, or lend Goods or Money :—
Sub-Class 1. Merchants and Wholesale Dealers 1,758 107 94 2.90 0.20 0.26
Sub-Class 2. Shopkeepers, Storekeepers, Retailers, Pedlers, &c. 2,498 1,572 435 4.12 2.99 1.21
Sub-Class 3. Bankers, Accountants, Bookkeepers Gold Buyers, Auctioneers, Agents, &c. 921 126 60 1.52 0.24 0.17
Sub-Class 4. Commercial Clerks, Salespeople and Assistants in Shops and Stores, Messengers, and Porters 3,168 650 158 5.23 1.23 0.44
CLASS V.—Persons engaged in Entertaining, Clothing, and performing Personal Offices for Man :—
Sub-Class 1. Inn and Lodging-house Keepers, Publicans, Livery Stable Keepers and Barmen, Grooms, &c. in Hotels 1,502 431 703 2.48 0.82 1.95
Sub-Class 2. Tailors, Dressmakers, Needlewomen, Shoemakers, Hatters, &c. 1,278 427 365 2.11 0.81 1.01
Sub-Class 3. Domestic Servants (General), Coachmen, Grooms, Gardeners, &c. 894 411 822 1.48 0.78 2.28
CLASS VI.—Manufacturing—Persons engaged in Art and Mechanical Productions, and in working and dealing in Minerals, Vegetable, and Animal Matters :—
Sub-Class 1. Employers in Manufactures and Arts, Contractors, &c. 1,000 99 157 1.65 0.19 0.44
Sub-Class 2. Workers in Stone and Clay—Masons, Bricklayers, Slaters, Plasterers, Quarrymen, &c. 2,283 261 687 3.77 0.50 1.91
Sub-Class 3. Workers in Iron—Blacksmiths, Whitesmiths, Founders, Horseshoers, &c. 658 432 308 1.09 0.82 0.86
Sub-Class 4. Workers in Wood—Carpenters, Cabinetmakers, Coachmakers, Wheelwrights, &c. 3,950 756 1,085 6.52 1.44 3.01
Sub-Class 5. Other Artizans and Mechanics ; Printers, Compositors, Book-binders, Tanners, Fellmongers, &c. 3,574 938 1,246 5.90 1.78 3.46
Sub-Class 6. Hammermen, Hodmen, Apprentices and Assistants to Mechanics, &c. 544 52 170 0.90 0.10 0.47
CLASS VII.—Mining—Persons engaged in digging for and washing out Gold 1,561 33,571 592 2.58 63.89 1.64
CLASS VIII.—Agricultural and Pastoral—Persons working Land and engaged in growing Grain, Fruits, Animals, and other products :—
Sub-Class 1. Squatters, Stockholders, Settlers, Sheep Farmers and Graziers 123 41 711 0.20 0.08 1.97
Sub-Class 2. Shepherds, Stockmen, Hutkeepers, and Station Servants 117 382 5,474 0.19 0.73 15.20
Sub-Class 3. Landed Proprietors (cultivating), Yeomen and Farmers 499 88 2,242 0.62 0.17 6.23
Sub-Class 4. Gardeners (Proprietors and Occupants) 148 28 189 0.24 0.05 0.52
Sub-Class 5. Farmers' Brothers, Sons, Nephews, &c., Farm Laborers, Gardeners working for hire (i.e. not Domestic Servants), Dairymaids, &c. 684 190 3,405 1.13 0.36 9.46
CLASS IX.—Carrying—Persons engaged in the Conveyance of Men and Goods :—
Draymen, Bullock-drivers, Cab-owners and Cabmen, Bargemen, Watercarriers, &c. 2,777 599 1,596 4.59 1.14 4.43
CLASS X.—Persons dealing in Food and Drinks :—
Butchers, Bakers, Fishmongers, Confectioners, Greengrocers, Brewers, Cordial Makers, &c. 1,653 1,189 429 2.73 2.26 1.19
CLASS XI.—Laborers—Branch of Labor undefined 4,810 1,022 2,801 7.94 1.94 7.78
CLASS XII.—Miscellaneous Pursuits—Persons engaged in occupations, not embraced in other classes 703 277 325 1.16 0.53 0.90
CLASS XIII.—Independent Means—Persons of Property and Rank not returned under any office or occupation :—
Annuitants, House and Land Owners, Independent means, Gentlemen, &c. 1,085 157 394 1.79 0.30 1.09
CLASS XIV.—Persons engaged in Domestic Offices or Duties, and of no specified occupation :—
Boys under fifteen years of age (whether attending school or not) 15,129 5,867 9,106 24.99 11.17 25.28
CLASS XV.—Sailors 1,363 587 236 2.25 1.12 0.66
CLASS XVI.—Persons whose pursuits have not been specified or who were unemployed 1,225 474 870 2.02 0.90 2.42
CLASS XVII.—Persons maintained at Public Cost or by the Community :—
Sub-Class 1. Prisoners in Gaols, Hulks, Stockades and Watchhouses 800 103 274 1.32 0.20 0.76
Sub-Class 2. Patients in Hospitals, Inmates of Asylums, Immigration Depots, &c. 676 82 1.12 0.16
TOTALS 60,546 52,542 36,012 99.95 99.98 99.98