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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 68

[Income of the Colony]

The total income of the colony is, of course, considerably larger than this 204 millions, though it is really only the same wealth passed from hand to hand by the instrumentality of money. I have tried to arrive at an estimate of it by going through all the classes of persons in the census and allotting incomes to them, and have tested this by comparison with the average results obtained in the leading industries, and by whatever other tests I could obtain from the works of the leading statisticians; the result is, though I have some hesitation in giving it, that I think the total amount cannot be less than £30,000,000, while it may be considerably more. If we accept this estimate, we get an average income per head of over £51, which may be compared with Mr Giffen's estimate for the United Kingdom in 1883 of a total of £1,270,000,000, or about £35 a head.

Estimated Total Produce of the Colony.
Estimated produce of building trades (2337 employers, 9355 employees) £1,600,000
Estimated produce of remainder of in-dustrial class (less 8763 considered to be distributors), 19,794 persons 2,375,000
Estimated produce of half of "labourers and others," 8521 persons 852,000
Produce of industries already given 15,843,000
Total value of all produce £20,670,000