SUMMARY OF MINING DISTRICTS—(MALES AND FEMALES)., TABLE XVII.—Showing the Occupations of Males and Females in each Mining District.
OCCUPATIONS. Totals. Ararat. Ballaarat. Beechworth. Castlemaine. Maryborough. Sandhurst.
Persons. Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females.
CLASS VI.—Manufacturing—Persons engaged in art and mechanical productions, and in working and dealing in mineral, vegetable, and animal matters :
Sub-class 1. Contractors—Special branch in which they work being undefined 127 127 7 32 14 37 16 21
Sub-class 2. Masons, bricklayers, slaters, hodmen, plasterers, &c. 1,137 1,137 43 319 64 378 93 240
Sub-class 3. Quarrymen, brickmakers, road and railway laborers, &c. 2,104 2,103 1 62 555 40 880 1 229 337
Sub-class 4. Blacksmiths, whitesmiths, founders, mechanical engineers, &c. 2,375 2,372 3 85 798 1 174 487 2 396 432
Sub-class 5. Builders, carpenters, building surveyors, timber merchants, sawyers, &c. 3,116 3,109 7 108 1 1,005 3 346 1 574 1 537 1 539
Sub-class 6. Cabinet makers, furniture dealers, carvers and gilders, turners, &c. 270 256 14 6 90 1 19 3 36 55 4 50 6
Sub-class 7. Coach and cart makers, wheelwrights, implement makers, &c. 449 449 7 147 39 101 64 91
Sub-class 8. Other artisans and mechanics, printers, bookbinders, coopers, &c. 839 822 17 24 275 6 89 3 144 4 120 1 170 3
Sub-class 9. Tanners, fellmongers, soapboilers, woolsorters, charcoal-burners, &c. 275 270 5 10 114 1 17 1 53 1 32 2 44
CLASS VII.—Gold mining—Persons engaged in digging for, washing out, and extracting gold :
Sub-class 1. Miners puddling 5,764 5,755 9 68 1,364 1 185 1,307 5 871 1 1,960 2
Sub-class 2. Miners sluicing 4,371 4,370 1 22 215 3,523 1 125 190 295
Sub-class 3. Miners quartz-raising 7,346 7,336 10 329 1 1,553 526 1 1,295 3 1,934 4 1,699 1
Sub-class 4. Miners quartz-crushing, amalgamating, &c. 1,043 1,038 5 66 1 340 2 58 160 1 182 232 1
Sub-class 5. Miners alluvial sinking 41,009 40,942 67 2,516 10,133 23 4,158 4 8,208 8 11,282 25 4,645 7
Sub-class 6. Miners (branch of gold mining undefined), diggers, &c. 18,408 18,366 42 1,060 1 1,894 10 1,389 1 3,242 11 6,789 13 3,992 6
Sub-class 7. Mining surveyors, officers of mining companies, members of mining boards (not otherwise returned) 172 171 1 3 1 58 10 42 15 43
Sub-class 8. Engineers, engine-drivers, and stokers to mining engines, &c. 333 333 9 134 22 43 34 91
Sub-class 9. Carters of washing stuff, slabbers, &c. 609 608 1 47 147 89 61 204 1 60
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. 151 143 8 5 29 3 40 3 19 16 1 34 1
Sub-class 2. Pastoral—Overseers on stations, stockmen, shepherds, station laborers, &c. 1,144 1,063 81 149 33 155 16 169 1 66 1 186 11 338 19
Sub-class 3. Agricultural—Farmers and market gardeners (masters), farmers' wives, &c. 2,842 2,244 598 41 14 664 205 149 35 674 157 417 105 299 82
Sub-class 4. Agricultural— Farm laborers and farm servants, gardeners (laborers) 3,821 3,577 244 79 7 1,425 102 241 11 934 60 397 43 501 21
Sub-class 5. Cattle dealers and sale-yard keepers, seedsmen, farriers, pound-keepers, &c. 625 621 4 19 159 1 55 141 1 133 2 114
CLASS IX.—Carrying—Persons engaged in the conveyance of men and goods :
Sub-class 1. Goods traffic chiefly—Carriers, draymen, bullock-drivers on roads, lightermen, &c. 2,174 2,167 7 116 2 709 2 260 1 428 2 299 355
Sub-class 2. Passenger traffic chiefly—Owners and drivers of coaches, cabs, &c., watermen, railway employes, &c. 374 371 3 11 90 36 74 65 95 3
Sub-class 3. Water carters, woodmen, firewood splitters, &c. 359 355 4 13 148 1 13 60 25 1 96 2
Sub-class 4. Porters and messengers (not assistants in shops or stores) 100 100 2 45 5 18 8 22
Sub-class 5. Engaged in sea navigation—Sailors, ship stewards and stewardesses, &c. 45 45 4 6 1 11 14 9
CLASS X.—Persons dealing in food and drinks :
Sub-class 1. Animal food chiefly—Butchers, poulterers, fishmongers, &c. 3,241 2,845 396 137 29 762 123 377 45 506 63 582 95 481 41
Sub-class 2. Vegetable food chiefly, and drinks—Bakers, confectioners, greengrocers, wine and spirit merchants, &c. 2,187 2,061 126 72 7 578 56 177 8 398 23 418 16 418 16
CLASS XI.—Miscellaneous pursuits—Persons engaged in occupations not embraced in other classes :
Sub-class 1. Laborers (undefined or unconnected with any of the foregoing pursuits) 1,794 1,791 3 60 611 3 100 447 182 391
Sub-class 2. Wood splitters, fencers, grubbers, bushmen, &c. (otherwise undefined) 790 788 2 30 318 1 79 154 1 66 141
Sub-class 3. Other occupations—Proprietors of labor offices, billiard-table keepers, newspaper runners, &c. 462 422 40 20 6 128 7 63 2 66 6 66 7 79 12