SIDELIGHTS OF N.Z. NATIONAL INCOME STATISTICS

Northern Advocate, 12 March 1941, Page 9

SIDELIGHTS OF N.Z. NATIONAL INCOME STATISTICS

The most usual incomes for male dairy farmers was to be found in the same class as the most usual income of share milkers —£208 and under £260.

Speaking at the quarterly meeting of the Whangarci Chamber of Commerce, the secretary of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce (Dr. E. P. Neale) made this statement when dealing with statistics relative to the national income of New Zealand.

Sheep farmers fell into the £ls6 £2OB annual income class—the figure which also represented the most usual annual earnings of taxi drivers.

Fruiterers, master butchers, master hairdressers and publicans all showed their most usual income in the £2OB- - class.

These figures were made available as a by-product of the 1937-38 Social Security tax collections.

Other Sections,

The most usual earnings of other sections were:—

Watchmakers, master bakers, grocers, plumbers and builders £260-£312. Estate agents, tobacconists and master-printers, £312-£364. Drapers and chemists, £364-£415. Clergymen and architects £260£312.

Lawyers and accountants £364-£416; dentists £416-£468.

For medical practitioners the figure approached, if it did not run, into four figures. Of male employees earning over £2OOO, 75 per cent were managers. Of male employers earning over that figure 50 per cent were farmers. “So now you know what to do with your sons,” Dr. Neale commented. Of women with incomes over £2OOO, 23 per cent were farmers and 2 per cent hotel keepers while 72 per cent were not gainfully employed.