H.—ll.

SHOPS— continued. Table 4.-Summary of Shops.

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Nature of Business. Number of P Employees. Male. Female. Employees. Number of Persons engaged. Employers. Persons Number engaged of in Shops. Shops. Total Wages paid during the Year. Male. Female. Agricultural-implement sellers Artificial-limb sellers Auctioneers Basketware and perambulator sellers Billiard-table sellers Bird and bird-cage dealers Booksellers and stationers Boot and shoe dealers Bread and pastry sellers Butchers Carriage and vehicle sellers Chemists and herbalists Clothiers, mercers, and hatters Coal and firewood dealers Crockery and glassware sellers Cycle and motor-car dealers Dairy-produce sellers Drapers and milliners .. Dyers and cleaners Electrical requisite sellers Fancy-goods dealers Fishmongers Florists and seedsmen Fruiterers and confectioners (European) Fruiterers and confectioners (Chinese) .. Furniture-dealers Gasfittings, &c, sellers Grocers and storekeepers Grindery and leather dealers Gun and sporting-goods sellers Hairdressers and tobacconists Ironmongery and hardware merchants .. Licensed hotelkeepers Marine stores Monument-sellers Music and musical-instrument sellers Optical and scientific instrument sellers Paint and paperhanging sellers Pawnbrokers Photographic-material dealers Picture and picture-frame dealers Portmanteau and leather-goods sellers .. Produce and grain merchants Restaurant and refreshment-room keepers Saddlery and harness dealers Sail, tent, and oilskin sellers Secondhand dealers Sewing and other machine sellers Ship-chandlers Taxidermists Tea and coffee merchants Tinware and plumbers' requisite sellers Umbrella-sellers Watch and jewellery sellers Wine-retailers Wire-woven goods dealers Woodware and timber merchants 59 206 4 2 1 369 311 156 1,764 11 551 587 394 32 179 159 2,481 2 26 35 112 89 108 27 325 34 4,723 28 15 538 847 2,071 8 5 24 7 3 311 232 332 100 2 29 105 30 41 58 29 3,183 9 5 139 23 45 337 116 12 1,089 3 6 56 109 2,960 34 1 100 20 6 467 1,050 413 1,061 20 431 740 254 36 357 112 820 30 26 158 206 56 870 208 394 15 2,766 15 15 788 288 985 5 7 121 11 246 10 110 102 3 102 637 334 21 122 58 4 2 23 275 32 414 9 5 51 1 2 1 118 51 205 17 8 16 19 8 1 18 574 6 108 39 21 572 I 16 573 98 .1 331 33 6 7 1,265 1,644 1,106 2,942 33 1.019 1,448 697 117 595 318 7,058 47 57 440 380 211 1,887 236 851 61 9,151 46 36 1,414 .1,254 6,691 13 7 442 23 481 13 208 133 3 344 3,597 413 31 191 123 13 .4 42 407 47 737 16 8 162 34 87 | 17 ! 1 6 526 1,035 434 943 20 411 697 224 35 346 i 130 1,147 34 ' 18 234 191 ! 57 1,299 104 345 14 2,986 15 13 768 288 1,059 4 4 127 9 218 11 116 101 3 105 979 353 22 146 64 2 3 20 j 228 35 399 9 3 37 £ 7,851 25,081 1,171 354 67 40,202 39,442 28,337 194,859 1,670 39,125 69,574 48,831 4,174 17,51.8 20,297 488,837 504 2,268 8,792 10,775 10,582 16,230 2,035 42,584 5,777 542,114 2,821 1,642 49,156 99,307 297,892 808 29,366 1,217 19,266 254 6,086 1,412 23,573 98,218 6,032 754 1,465 4,588 1,363 10 965 9,903 430 29,110 406 119 13,933 32 10 675 i95 9 166 2 27 13 101 2 54 25 1 15 1 9 5 62 13 225 450 65 7 14 22 9 1 11 103 15 1,814 11 3 14 38 2 696 3 41 5 6 26 9 90 1 2 3 6 13 1 220 6 2 108 1 3 Grand totals 17,909 1.1,662 15,446 3,921 48,938 16,577 j 2,375,14'