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SHOPS— continued. Table 3— continued.

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Number of Shops Number of Persons employed, j Total Wages Trades Without Employing Tntol Assistants. Assistants. during the Males. Females. Total. Year. OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND PRO' 'INCIAL IISTRIC (EXOL 1DING iunedi: CITY). £ Agricultural-implement sellers Auctioneers .. .. Basketware-sellers Booksellers and stationers Boot and shoe retailers Bread and pastry sellers Butchers Chemists Clothiers Coal and wood dealers Cycle and motor-car sellers Dairy-produce dealers Drapery and millinery Engine and machine sellers Fancy-goods dealers Fishmongers Fruit and confectionery sellers Furniture-dealers Grocers and storekee, ers Hairdressers and tobacconists Ironmongers 1 1 2 6 51 22 13 11 22 1 12 1 37 6 11 5 47 7 115 21 9 3 1 7 2 1 4 2 29 2 1 3 5 14 17 27 78 21 19 9 8 2 68 2 3 3 17 6 195 29 16 4 2 11 1 4 6 |2 20 68 49 !)] 32 41 10 20 3 105 8 14 8 64 13 310 50 25 7 3 18 3 1 7 7 34 4 2 2 10 3 34 10 18 1 47 96 41 275 62 79 56 32 3 284 13 11 11 42 22 727 84 129 16 9 33 3 1 14 9 41 5 2 5 15 1 40 5 1 19 10 59 8 3 10 3 5 3 204 4 7 7 50 4 102 7 3 10 739 23 1,295 2 Occupier!. 66 : 2,069 106 2,228 100 1,568 283 13,819 65 : 2,017 89 ' 3,374 59 ! 3,078 37 ; 1,093 6 i 211 488 29,503 17 462 18 194 18 I 229 92 ! 732 26 783 829 42,550 91 2,523 132 11,046 16 396 10 745 36 746 4 21 1 Occupier. 14 468 18 374 43 445 5 219 3 20 5 124 17 539 3 Occupiers. 49 448 Mercers Music-sellers Paint and paperhanging sellers Photographic-material sellers Picture-dealers Produce and seed merchants Refreshment-room keepers Saddlery and harness sellers Sail, tent, and canvasware dealers Second-hand dealers Tea and coffee retailers Tinware-dealers Umbrella-sellers Watch and jewellery sellers 3 5 5 2 1 2 2 1 3 1 "9 2 1 8 3 23 2 2 9 ii For rates of wages see Auckland City, We] we generally the rates for the district. IHngton Cii by, Christe: lurch am Dunedii i, in whii the rai ;es specified