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The required information was furnished respecting 5,593 persons to whom it was thought the provisions of the Bill would apply, distributed amongst the various Departments as follows:-

Classification of Data. 3. A classification of these 5,593 persons according to present age and class of employment will be found in Appendix No. 2 of which the following is a summary, arranged to show the numbers of permanent and temporary (over five years' service) employees respectively: —

\' Professional, &c," includes heads of Departments, principal officers, and experts. ,' Clerical" includes clerks, accountants, auditors, registrars (non-legal), collectors of Customs, readers, and reporters. ' Non-clerical (indoor)" includes telegraphists, postmasters, distributors and sorters, mail-supervisors, messengers, attendants, custodians, warders, gaolers, bailiffs, criers, nurses, matrons, charwomen, laundresses, compositors, bookbinders, folders, mechanicians, storemen, cooks, indoor artisans. " Non-clerical (outdoor) '■'■ includes letter-carriers; linemen, lighthouse-keepers, landing-waiters, overseers of public -works, gardeners, labourers, mechanical engineers,, rangers, rabbit agents, boatmen, farm hands, and outdoor ..artisans.' ... .. ..... '."'-.' : ■_---' . Summaries of Statistics..; i. I have not found it. necessary to go into the question of the different classes of occupation further than to make these statistical summaries for general information. Although it is evident from the salary-scales that the " non-clerical " would not require quite such high rates of contribution as the " clerical " and " professional " in order to purchase retiring pensions on the same scale, the Bill provides for the same rate of contribution from all employees of the same age, irrespective of the nature of their employment. Nor do 1 think any other course would be desirable, for the lower-paid employees will receive relatively more favourable treatment in respect

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No. Department. Males. Females. Total Number. Total Salaries. "I 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 IO 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Post and Telegraph Lands and Survey Justice .. .. .. .. • .. Agriculture Mental Hospitals .. .. Customs Public Works Printing and Stationery Government Life Insurance .. ... Prisons .. .. ■■ . -. Roads .. .. .. .. ... Marine .. .. .. • .. .. ; Valuation Defence .. .. .. .. Colonial Secretary .. .. .. Public Trust Land Transfer and Deeds Registry Tourist and Health Resorts .. .. Native Mines Labour Audit Land and Income Tax .. .. House of Representatives Treasury Public Health Inspection of Machinery Education (excluding those coming under " The Teachers' Superannuation Act, 1905") Stamps .. .. .. Crown Law .. .. .. .... State Fire Insurance .. .. Registrar-General Advances to Settlers .. Old-age Pensions Legislative Council Hospitals Electoral Friendly Societies Land for Settlements Industries and Commerce Colonial Museum .. .. .. .. Native Land Purchase 2,275 324 190 182 268 188 170 173 123120 96 107 77 ; 73 60 65 50 43 32 39 43 40 42 30 ' 37 22 24 25 297 2,572 19 343 1 191 182 165 433 4 192 5 175 40 213 12 135 13 133 2 98 1 108 4 81 1 74 4 64 13 78 1 51 5 48 32 39 4 47 2 42 2 44 6 36 7 44 22 1 25 13 38 £ 333,420 70,440 46,937 41,757 39,635 35,705 34,893 31,179 24,944 20,015 19,780 16,429 15,660 14,854 12,229 11,749 11,742 10,022 9,830 9,619 9,314 9,245 9,119 8,549 8,175 6,557 6,182 5,486 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 30 37 38 39 40 41 42 22 7 25 16 19 18 5 2 5 4 2 2 3 1 5,049 86 4 26 7 2 27 16 19 18 5 1 3 5 1 5 2 2 3 .. 1 630 5,679 .. 86 630 5,593 4,750 3,760 3,555 3,478 3,115 3,081 1,710 1,460 1,192 1,190 1,010 875 826 525 Deduct 86 Civil servants entitled to pensions under Civil Service Acts, and not eligible under the present Bill 909,993 33,868 4,963 876,125 Totals .. .. ..:..:

Males. Females. Total. Class. Permanent. Tem " Total, porary. I Per- Tem- Total Per " Temrnanent. porary. ! ' manent. \ porary. Grand Total. Professional, &c. Clerical Non-clerical (indoor)" 1 .. „ (outdoor) 740 34 774 1,856 122 "1,978 1,356 86 1,442 716 53 769 4,668 .295 4,963 • ' 'I ■' ' I 9 0 9 749 34 364 | 6 370 2,220 128 227 I 23 250 1,583 109 1 0 1 717 53 783 2,348 1,692 770 Totals 601 29 ! 630 \ 5,269 324 5,593