THE COLONY, MUNICIPALITIES, MINING DISTRICTS.—(NUMBERS AND PROPORTIONS)—continued.,TABLE X.—Showing the Numbers and Proportions per cent., to their respective Totals of Persons, Males and Females of different Occupations in the whole Colony, in the Corporate Towns and Municipalities, and in the Mining Districts—continued.

OCCUPATIONS.	The Colony.
	Numbers.			Proportions per cent.
	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.
CLASSES AND SUB-CLASSES.
CLASS VI.—Manufacturing—Persons engaged in art and mechanical productions, and in working and dealing in mineral, vegetable, and animal matters :
Sub-class 5. Builders, carpenters, building surveryors, timber merchants, sawyers, &c.	8,508	8,489	19	1.575	2.592	0.009
Sub-class 6. Cabinet makers, furniture dealers, carvers and gilders, turners, &c.	1,083	1,020	63	0.200	0.311	0.030
Sub-class 7. Coach and cart makers, wheelwrights, implement makers, &c.	1,754	1,748	6	0.325	0.532	0.003
Sub-class 8. Other artisans and mechanics, printers, bookbinders, coopers, &c.	3,140	3,060	80	0.581	0.931	0.038
Sub-class 9. Tanners, fellmongers, soapboilers, woolsorters, charcoal-burners, &c.	940	921	19	0.174	0.280	0.009
CLASS VII.—Gold mining—Persons engaged in digging for, washing out, and extracting gold :
Sub-class 1. Miners puddling	5,848	5,839	9	1.082	1.777	0.004
Sub-class 2. Miners sluicing	4,433	4,432	1	0.821	1.349
Sub-class 3. Miners quartz-raising	7,713	7,700	13	1.427	2.343	0.006
Sub-class 4. Miners quartz-crushing, amalgamating, &c.	1,133	1,128	5	0.210	0.343	0.003
Sub-class 5. Miners alluvial sinking	42,559	42,489	70	7.876	12.928	0.033
Sub-class 6. Miners (branch of gold mining undefined), diggers, &c.	20,204	20,159	45	3.739	6.134	0.022
Sub-class 7. Mining surveyors, officers of mining companies, members of mining boards (not otherwise returned)	202	202		0.037	0.062
Sub-class 8. Engineers, engine-drivers, and stokers to mining engines, &c.	372	372		0.069	0.114
Sub-class 9. Carters of washing stuff, slabbers, &c.	652	652		0.121	0.198
CLASS VIII.—Agricultural and pastoral—Persons working land and engaged in growing grain, fruits, animals, and other products :
Sub-class 1. Pastoral—Squatters, stockholders, graziers, sheep farmers, settlers, &c.	1,064	1,011	53	0.197	0.307	0.025
Sub-class 2. Pastoral— Overseers on stations, stockmen, shepherds, and station laborers, &c.	8,660	8,069	591	1.603	2.455	0.279
Sub-class 3. Agricultral—Farmers and market gardeners (masters), farmers' wives, &c.	17,343	13,022	4,321	3.209	3.962	2.042
Sub-class 4. Agricultural—Farm laborers and farm servants, gardeners (laborers)	23,875	21,716	2,159	4.419	6.608	1.020
Sub-class 5. Cattle dealers and sale-yard keepers, seedsmen, farriers, poundkeepers, &c.	1,859	1,846	13	0.344	0.562	0.006
CLASS IX.—Carrying—Persons engaged in the conveyance of man and goods :
Sub-class 1. Goods traffic chiefly—Carriers Draymen, bullockdrivers on roads, lightermen, &c.	6,744	6,723	21	1.248	2.045	0.010
Sub-class 2. Passenger traffic chiefly—Owners and drivers coaches, cabs, &c., watermen, railway employes, &c.	1,764	1,754	10	0.326	0.534	0.005
Sub-class 3. Water carters, woodmen, firewood splitters, &c.	755	742	13	0.140	0.226	0.006
Sub-class 4. Porters and messengers (not assistants in shops or stores)	492	489	3	0.091	0.149	0.002
Sub-class 5. Engaged in sea navigation—Sailors, ship stewards and stewardesses, &c.	2,490	2,481	9	0.461	0.755	0.004
CLASS X.—Persons dealing in food and drinks:
Sub-class 1. Animal food chiefly—Butchers, poulterers, fishmongers, &c.	6,685	5,874	811	1.237	1.787	0.383
Sub-class 2. Vegetable food chiefly, and drinks—Bakers, confectioners, greengrocers, wine and spirit merchants, &c.	5,695	5,230	465	1.054	1.592	0.220