According to statistics just issued from the office of the Registrar-Gen-eral the average yearly earnings of the male population of the dominion s —or was in 1906, for which year the return is made up—£94 2s 6d; and the female earnings £42 7s. On the male side the earnings in the various occupations are given as follow: Professional, £144 8; domestic, £79.3; commercial £115.9; transport, £108; industrial, £94.1; agricultural, pastoral, mineral and other primary producers, £73.3; indefinite, £95. Female earnings: Professional, £67.2; domestic, £37.3; commercial, £37.0; transport, £59.8
industrial, £40.1; agricultural and and other primary producers, £22.4; indefinite, £SO. The figures are interesting so far as they go; but they would have been much more so had the Registrar-General made a com parison with other Statas of the Empire.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9058, 6 April 1908, Page 4
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