Principal Occupations of the People, March 31st, 1885.
Labourers |
20,648 |
Millers |
16,480 |
Domestic Servants |
19,695 |
Commercial Clerks |
4,872 |
Station and Bush Hands |
11,873 |
Railway Labourers |
3,324 |
Draymen and Carters |
3,277 |
Shipwrights |
578 |
Seamen and Engineers |
5,027 |
Officers of Government |
3,437 |
Persons who Buy and Sell (Shopkeepers, etc.) |
14,509 |
Milliners and Dressmakers |
4,278 |
Professional Men |
11,873 |
Blacksmiths |
2,748 |
Carpenters |
7,275 |
Masons and Plasterers |
1,758 |
Painters |
2,200 |
Printers |
1,897 |
Breweries |
526 |
Engine Drivers and Firemen |
1,306 |
Chinese |
5,804 |
Laundresses |
580 |
Butchers and Salesmen |
2,556 |
Bakers |
1,592 |
Sawmillers |
4,870 |
Police |
457 |
Constabulary |
740 |
Supported by Charity |
2,725 |
Hotelkeepers |
1,591 |
Club, Inn, and Eating-house Servants |
2,471 |
Widows |
7,296 |
|
168,263 |