LEGISLATORS’ OCCUPATIONS. AN INTERESTING RETURN. A MAJORITY OF FARcUERS. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, August 22. The occupations of members elected in 1905 show that farmers or ninholders furnish more members than any other class of occupation. There wero twenty-one of these (besides four given as “settlers”). Returned in 1905 there were nine barristers or solcitors, and five journalists. The following is a. detailed list of the occupations:—Secretary of Y.M.C.A. 1, barrister and solicitors 9, journalists 5, mining advocate, interpreter, lecturer, teacher 3, chemist 1, insurance manager 1, landhroker, estate agent 3, director of insurance company 1, native agent 1, stationer, bookseller,: draper, grocer, butcher 3, merchant, iron merchant, timber merchant 3, storekeeper 2, commission agent, clerk, accountant, commercial traveller 3, tailor, shoemaker, dyer 3, mill-owner, ship-rigger, builder, metallurgical engineer, mine manager 2, railway employe 1, blacksmith 1, printer, newspaper proprietor 1, farmer 16, sheepfarmer, runholder. grazier, stock owner 5, contractor 3, settler, gentleman, etc. 8.
MIS & DSi: Manufacturers of BISCUITS, JAMS, and CONFECTIONER’S AUCKLAND AND THAMES. To Settlers in Gisborne and East Coast Districts. . WE wish to draw your attention to the fact that we supply the Best JAMS and MARMALADE made in the colony, largely from Fruit Grown in the Auckland District Why, then, should you Bend your money South for these Articles P —BUY—MENNIE AND DAY’S Biscuits, Jams, Fancy Confeotions, Chocolates and Sweets of every kind Head Offioo: Albert St., Auckland. Government t ife OVERNMENT JUIFE INSURANCE. NSURANCE. gTATE BONUSES ACCRUE WITH EACH PREMIUM PAID. TRIENNIAL DISTRIBUTIONS. BONUSES ALLOTTED TO DATE: £1,920,000. J H. RICHARDSON, F.F.A. Commissioner. rjTHIS Space is Reserved for HORNE and GRAY, Painters, Decorator?, and Picture Framers. Premises now in course of erection, Haiti Esplanade. House address —Dunoon, Parau-street, Haiti. /MASSIDY’S. OASSIDY’S Royal hjail /moaches. oyal IVJLaiI Coaches. Te Karaka Bnd Motu twice a Week. XT. CASSIDY’S Mail Coach 1 leaves for Motu every Tuesday and Friday at 7.30 a.m., returning the following day. L3VEKY AND BAIT STABLES Saddle Horses and all classes of Vehicles on shortest notice. Letters and Telegrams promptly at tended to. I Horses Broken into single and . double harness as per arrangement. I J. T. CASSIDY, i Coaoh Proprietor, i' Te Karaka.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2167, 24 August 1907, Page 1
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