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PARLIAMENTABY PUBLICATIONS. [Dec. 1895. 



Science and Art DepoyTtment. Forty-second Report, ivith 

 Appendices. C. — 7698. [Price Is. 9c?.] 



This report contains a minute by the Department regarding 

 the administration of funds by County Councils under the 

 Technical Instruction Acts, to the effect that prizes may be 

 awarded at competitions in agricultural processes if such com- 

 petitions are confined to persons who have been taught by 

 instructors appointed by the County Council. But the offer of 

 prizes for manual dexterity at an agricultural competition, apart 

 from class instruction, would not be a legitimate application of 

 funds under the Technical Instruction Acts. 



The report also contains the observations of the examiners in 

 the principles of agriculture. A sound and valuable course of 

 instruction in the elementary stage is, it is stated, being given 

 in this subject, especially when viewed from an agricultural 

 standpoint. The general character of the papers in the advanced 

 stage appeared to indicate a lack of definite teaching, and espe- 

 cially of a quantitative handling of the subjects taught, while 

 in the honours stage it is reported that the character of the 

 instruction was greatly inferior to that which had been observe'd- 

 in previous examinations. 



Occupations of the People {England and^ Wales) enivmerated in 

 1871, ISSl, and ]891. [H.C.— 468.] Price 3d 



This is a return to an order of the House of Commons 

 showing the numbers of males and females (distinguishing those 

 aged under and over 20 years) enumerated in England and 

 Wales at each of the three censuses in 1871, 1881, and 1891,, 

 according to their various occupations as enumerated in the 

 censuses of those years. As the system of classification adopted 

 at these successive censuses differed in some cases, the figures for 

 1881 and 1871 have been corrected and adjusted so as to make 

 them as nearly as possible comparable with those of 1891. All 

 ascertained changes adopted in the classification of occupations 

 in 1881 and 1891 have been fully noted in the return, even if 

 the change is of such a character as to render correction of the- 

 figures for such changes impossible. 



It is mentioned in an introductory note that satisfactory 

 comparison, in detail, of the occupation statistics already tabu- 

 lated in the census reports of the years referred to, is beset with 

 man}^, often insuperable, difficulties ; for not only were many 

 of the occupational headings of the 1871 census changed in 1881 

 and in 1891, but, in nmny instances, variations were made in the 

 grouping of individual occupations under the several headings, 

 although the titles of the headings remained unchanged. 



In the following summary of the agricultural population, it is 

 pointed out, for instance,, that land stewards who were included^ 



