CANADIAN INDUSTRIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1939, Page 5

CANADIAN INDUSTRIES

INCREASE IN AGRICULTURE. ■ OTTAWA. Indicating the extensive industrials sation of Canada, a Government report shows that according to the latest cen • sus, only one-third of the gainfully employed men in the Dominion were engaged in agricultural pursuits while at the opening of the century more than one half were engaged in agriculture. The percentage of the gainfully occupied in other primary pursuits including fishing and logging has not changed materially. While such primary industries as mining have expanded considerably, the increased use of machinery has resulted in a greater output per individual than at the opening of the century. Occupations in construction work has kept pace with the increase in the number of persons employed in all type of work. There were four times more males employed in transportation work while the increase in female workers under this classification was spectacular due to the expansion of the use of the telephone. The* Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports that “the number of persons in trade and finance occupations has also increased at a more rapid rate than in’ all occupations combined.” There were three times as many males in professional occupations and almost five times as many females. Clerical occupations have continued to grow al a more rapid rate than the gainfully occupied as a whole. For females in particular employment in clerical occupations has expanded at a remarkable rate, the number in those occu pations rising from about 3.000 to approximately 117.000.