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SUMMARY.

Total number of persons under Factories Act— 1891-92 .. .. .. 20,456 1892-93 .. .. .. 25,022 1892-93 .. .. ..25,022 1893-94 .. .. .. 25,851 Increase .. .. 4,566 Increase .. .. 829 These totals do not include employes of the Eailway Commissioners. Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given; printing (2,350 copies), £50 7s. 6d.

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Males. Females. Males. Females. Fruit and vegetable evaporating Sugar-refining Jams, biscuits, and confectionery manufacturing Pickles, sauce, and vinegar manufacturing Fish-curing .. Ham ana bacon curing Meat preserving ana freezing Rabbit-preserving Coffee ana chicory milling Tea blenaing ana packing Butter ana cheese manufacturing Baking Flour-milling Aerated-water ana cordial manufacturing Brewing ana malting Wine ana spirit manufacturing Chaff-cutting Grain ana seea cleaning Flax-milling Rope ana twine making Sail ana tent making Calico-bag making Umbrella-making Oilskin-clothing manufacturing Shirt-making Hosiery-knitting Tailoring Clothing-manufacturing Waterproof-clothing manufacturing .. Hat ana cap manufacturing Dressmaking Woollen-milling Flock-milling Wool-aumping Boot ana shoe manufacturing Saddle and harness making Whip-thong making Bag and portmanteau making Perambulator and wiokerware making Tanning and currying Wool, rug, and mat making Carpet-weaving Dyeing and cleaning Chemicals ana arugs manufacturing .. Manufacturing arugs ana herbal remeaies Gas-manufacturing Patent-fuel manufacturing 3 119 325 5 3 12 1,084 50 21 113 108 432 296 174 408 19 39 34 544 156 62 6 6 10 6 'ii4 10 "l4 2 2 18 1 1 35 2 1 9 181 185 983 1,412 109 23 2,434 537 Match-manufacturing Venetian-blind making Wood-turning Box-making Chair-making Cabinetmaking, upholstering, &c. Coopering Joinery and sash-door making Boatbuiiaing Sawmilling.. Carriage ana coach buiiaing Blacksmithing Agricultural-implement making Engineering, boilermaking, ana blacksmithing Plumbing, tinsmithing, and gasfitting Cycle-making Sewing-machine repairing Gunsmithing Electrical-engineering Galvanised-iron works Wire-working ana nail-making Copper ana brass works Tinware ana japan works Jewellery and watchmaking Lapidary-works .. . I Monumental-masonry Lime-burning Cement-making Pottery-works Brick-works Printing Paper and stationery making Paper-bag and -box making Photographic stuaios Piano repairing ana making .. ». Brush-making Laundries Soap and candle making and bone-dust works Manure-works Fellmongering Sausage-casings and gutworks Gum-packing Cigarette and cigar making Dentistry Marine repairing-yards (Union S.S. Co.) 3 24 45 8 18 567 205 199 14 1,747 710 232 487 1,084 534 84 6 5 10 31 27 100 9 103 11 23 2 19 50 199 1,943 86 2 7 "35 1 1 3 803 386 14 13 4 236 7 11 67 522 2 25 1,748 388 4 12 54 422 2 5 17 84 6 207 5 *638 14 55 22 44 19 227 15 128 10 3 7 2 2 13 507 56 136 32 4 42 **61 4 12 12 Totals 18,490 7,361