Summary of Goldfields, with Proportions.—Orders., TABLE XIX.—Showing the Number of Persons, Males, and Females at all Ages, and under and over Twenty Years of Age, of different Occupations, arranged in fifteen orders, living on the Goldfields on the 2nd April 1871, and the Proportions per Cent. of those of each order to the Total of the same column.

Class.	Order.	Occupations (arranged in fifteen orders).	Numbers.
			Persons.			Males.			Females.
			All Ages.	Under 20 Years.	Over 20 Years.	All Ages.	Under 20 Years.	Over 20 Years.	All Ages.	Under 20 Years.	Over 20 Years.
		TOTAL POPULATION OF GOLDFIELDS	270,428	131,501	138,927	155,269	65,558	89,711	115,159	65,943	49,216
		TOTAL OF SPECIFIED OCCUPATIONS	269,616	131,331	138,285	154,743	65,492	89,251	114,873	65,839	49,034
I.	1	Persons engaged in the general or local government, or the defence or protection of the country	779	26	753	766	26	740	13		13
I.	2	Persons engaged in the learned professions, or in literature, art, science (with their immediate subordinates)	3,287	541	2,746	2,035	186	1,849	1,252	355	897
II.	3	Persons engaged in the domestic offices or duties of wives, mothers, mistresses of families, children, relatives, (not otherwise returned)	155,297	114,687	40,610	54,645	54,564	81	100,652	60,123	40,529
II.	4	Persons engaged in entertaining and performing personal offices for man	9,991	3,953	6,038	2,507	266	2,241	7,484	3,687	3,797
III.	5	Persons who buy and sell, keep or lend money, houses, or goods of various kinds	4,650	469	4,181	4,163	437	3,726	487	32	455
III.	6	Persons engaged in the conveyance of men, animals, goods, and messages	2,880	473	2,407	2,873	473	2,400	7		7
IV.	7	Persons possessing, working, or cultivating land ; raising or dealing in animals ; or following pursuits subsidiary thereto	12,956	2,550	10,406	12,348	2,280	10,068	608	270	338
V.	8	Persons engaged in working and dealing in art and mechanic productions in which matters of various kinds are employed in combination	5,808	793	5,015	5,737	783	4,954	71	10	61
V.	9	Persons working and dealing in textile fabrics, dress, and in fibrous materials	5,910	1,688	4,222	2,613	607	2,006	3,297	1,081	2,216
V.	10	Persons working and dealing in food and drinks	4,728	928	3,800	4,430	898	3,532	298	30	268
V.	11	Persons working and dealing in animal and vegetable substances	3,185	528	2,657	3,172	523	2,649	13	5	8
V.	12	Persons working and dealing in minerals	53,387	3,783	49,604	53,367	3,781	49,586	20	2	18
VI.	13	Laborers and others (branch of labor undefined)	4,202	518	3,684	4,186	511	3,675	16	7	9
VI.	14	Persons of property and rank not returned under any office or occupation	168		168	123		123	45		45
VI.	15	Persons supported by the community and of no specified occupation	2,388	394	1,994	1,778	157	1,621	610	237	373
		Occupation not stated	812	170	642	526	66	460	286	104	182