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SURVEY OF EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS Table 46.—Analysis of Number of Units and Labour Content in 1939 and 1945 of Particular Industries surveyed during September and October, 1945

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(Note. —The table below excludes figures for all Government services and local bodies) Industrial Group. Estimated Number of Units in Industry in October, 1945. -Number of these Units surveyed. Labour Force in Units surveyed. Pre-war. October, 1945. Males. Females. Males, j Females. Nurserymen, seed grading and packing Coal-mining, coal carbonization and briquettes Stone quarrying and crushing Sauces and pickles, fruit and vegetable preserving, and jam-making Grain-milling Bread-baking .. .. .. ., Biscuits and confectionery Pastrycooks and home cookeries Sugar-refining Concentrated foods, patent medicines and foods, coffee and spice, and ice-cream Aerated waters and cordials, brewing and malting, and wine-making Tobacco and cigarette manufacture Ammunition and explosives, boiling down and manures, chemical fertilizers, chemical and patent preparations, cosmetics and toilet preparations, ink-making, matches, paint and varnish, polishes (boot and floor), sheep-dip, soap, candle, tallow, and starch manufacture, stock foods and grain-crushing Rubber goods and vulcanizing Timber-yards and replaning-mills Joinery and woodworking Furniture and blind making Coopering and case-making, wickerwork and perambulators Paper-milling, paper bags and cartons and cigarettepaper manufacture Printing, publishing, and photography Woolscouring and fellmongery, and tanning Fur coats and necklets Saddlery and harness and other leather goods Phormium tenax, linen flax, rope and twine Woollen, knitting, and hosiery mills Carpet sewing and cutting, fieete-miHs, and rug and mat making Clothing (excluding hosiery and knitted wear) and umbrella making Footwear-manufacture Footwear-repairing Bag and sack making, mattress-making, and sail, tent, and oilskin Gas production and distribution Brick and tile and concrete products Glass-making, leadlight and bevelling Bituminous roofing, building sheet (plaster and cement), lime and cement, monumental masons, pumice products General engineering, foundries and boiler making, electro-plating, nail-making, range-making, sheetmetal, small machines and equipment Agricultural and dairy machinery Electrical engineering and radio manufacture Ship-building Motor assembly, coach-building, aircraft engineering Motor engineering, cycle (repair and sales) shops Engraving and stamp-die making, and jewellery Brush and broom making and picture-framing Architects and consulting engineers Transport (excluding railways) Wholesale merchants and importers, cool-stores Retail shops Coal and firewood distribution Offices (accountants, solicitors, and miscellaneous) .. Auctioneers Hotels —licensed and private (excluding boardinghouses) Restaurants and tea-rooms Laundries, dyeing, and dry-cleaning Hairdressers Theatres, clubs, <ftc. Total .. 177 138 45 32 42 559 57 556 2 122 180 5 234 73 132 234 374 73 33 578 66 55 178 38 57 25 615 77 456 49 37 140 30 212 666 86 325 39 126 1,381 201 52 194 2,476 1,024 10,479 418 2,243 136 1,353 1,125 176 1,370 714 165 137 41 29 42 529 53 487 1 107 164 5 193 68 125 217 305 64 30 514 62 52 149 27 54 21 612 75 420 44 37 127 28 201 595 82 255 27 98 1,220 177 42 141 2,020 950 9,683 400 2,142 135 1,223 1,056 172 1,292 639 638 4,939 374 488 704 2,320 1,486 449 262 1,032 1,893 221 2,585 360 1,863 2,420 2,854 1,0?8 560 4,551 1,002 220 425 452 •1,691 54 2,286 1,888 569 421 1,784 1,831 518 2,612 8,928 1,267 2,309 549 2,067 7,739 578 219 313 7,306 9,526 23,070 ] ,440 4,834 722 3,850 961 626 1,256 1,670 270 12 6 463 120 498 2,267 1,320 593 ' 97 825 960 99 59 67 371 46 535 1,951 56 372 493 114 2,997 14 12,388 1,783 54 474 87 71 67 51 988 105 595 8 42 845 156 173 57 507 2,861 18,969 161 3,601 197 5,825 2,675 914 1.352 1,149 692 5,705 371 615 707 2,242 1,219 528 265 1,270 2,048 248 2,970 871 1,717 2,596 2,693 996 785 3,768 1,350 183 563 871 2,156 289 2,245 2,115 738 524 1,686 1,899 564 2,924 10,504 1,477 2,493 930 1,636 6,218 594 258 277 8,305 8,875 21,727 1,548 4,548 810 4,088 1,225 866 1,344 1,640 343 26 7 613 134 641 1,432 1,572 7 776 171 759 1,589 242 67 169 367 80 599 2,068 61 258 717 179 3,514 118 12,789 1,892 75 808 101 213 80 54 1,610 131 824 22 93 808 232 188 68 605 2,872 20,260 206 4,070 257 5,737 3,495 '1,249 1,671 1,234 30,265 27,534 126,020 70,760 129,785 78,153