NUMBERS AND PROPORTIONS, 1854, 1857, 1861—(SUB-CLASSES)—continued., TABLE VI.—Showing the Number and Proportions per cent. to their respective Totals, of Persons, Males, and Females (exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines), of different Occupations, in 1854, 1857, and 1861.
| OCCUPATIONS. |
Number of Persons. |
| 1854. |
1857. |
| Both Sexes. |
Males. |
Females. |
Both Sexes. |
Males. |
Females. |
| CLASSES AND SUB-CLASSES. |
|
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|
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| CLASS VI. (continued).—Manufacturing—Persons engaged in art and mechanical productions, and in working and dealing in mineral, vegetable, and animal matters : |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sub-class 4. Blacksmiths, whitesmiths, founders, mechanical engineers, &c. |
1,421 |
1,421 |
|
3,694 |
3,681 |
13 |
| Sub-class 5. Builders, carpenters, building surveyors, timber merchants, sawyers, &c. |
5,872 |
5,872 |
|
8,151 |
8,142 |
9 |
| Sub-class 6. Cabinet makers, furniture dealers, carvers and gilders, turners, &c. |
|
|
|
1,005 |
949 |
56 |
| Sub-class 7. Coach and cartmakers, wheelwrights, implement makers, &c. |
|
|
|
1,590 |
1,584 |
6 |
| Sub-class 8. Other artisans and mechanics, printers, bookbinders, coopers, &c. |
6,657 |
6,657 |
|
2,487 |
2,443 |
44 |
| Sub-class 9. Tanners, fellmongers, soapboilers, woolsorters, charcoal-burners, &c. |
|
|
|
615 |
597 |
18 |
| CLASS VII.—Gold mining—Persons engaged in digging for, washing out, and extracting gold : |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sub-class 1. Miners puddling |
36,332 |
36,332 |
|
3,398 |
3,378 |
20 |
| Sub-class 2. Miners sluicing |
|
|
|
2,277 |
2,770 |
7 |
| Sub-class 3. Miners quart-raising |
|
|
|
3,036 |
3,035 |
1 |
| Sub-class 4. Miners quartz-crushing, amalgamating, &c. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sub-class 5. Miners alluvial sinking |
|
|
|
21,628 |
21,566 |
62 |
| Sub-class 6. Miners (branch of gold mining undefined), diggers, &c. |
|
|
|
31,858 |
31,731 |
127 |
| Sub-class 7. Mining surveyors, officers of mining companies, members of mining boards (not otherwise returned) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sub-class 8. Engineers, engine-drivers, and stokers to mining engines, &c. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sub-class 9. Carters of washing stuff, slabbers, &c. |
|
|
|
231 |
231 |
|
| 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. |
893 |
884 |
9 |
986 |
908 |
78 |
| Sub-class 2. Pastoral—Overseers on stations, stockmen, shepherds, and station laborers, &c. |
5,981 |
5,981 |
|
7,866 |
7,138 |
728 |
| Sub-class 3. Agricultural—Farmers and market gardeners (masters), farmers' wives, &c. |
7,599 |
7,513 |
86 |
10,406 |
7,960 |
2,446 |
| Sub-class 4. Agricultural—Farm laborers and farm servants, gardeners (laborers) |
|
|
|
16,432 |
14,860 |
1,572 |
| Sub-class 5. Cattle dealers and sale-yard keepers, seedsmen, farriers, poundkeepers, &c. |
|
|
|
1,320 |
1,309 |
11 |
| 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. |
5,957 |
5,957 |
|
7,451 |
7,424 |
27 |
| Sub-class 2. Passenger traffic chiefly—Owners and drivers of coaches, cabs, &c., watermen, railway employes, &c. |
|
|
|
966 |
964 |
2 |
| Sub-class 3. Water carters, woodmen, firewood splitters, &c. |
|
|
|
441 |
435 |
6 |
| Sub-class 4. Porters and messengers (not assistants in shops or stores) |
|
|
|
431 |
430 |
1 |
| Sub-class 5. Engaged in sea navigation—Sailors, ship stewards and stewardesses, &c. |
|
|
|
3,867 |
3,852 |
15 |
| CLASS X.—Persons dealing in food and drinks : |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sub-class 1. Animal food chiefly—Butchers, poulterers, fishmongers, &c. |
3,329 |
3,307 |
22 |
4,680 |
4,145 |
535 |
| Sub-class 2. Vegetable food chiefly and drinks—Bakers, confectioners, greengrocers, wine and spirit merchants, &c. |
|
|
|
4,291 |
3,908 |
383 |