• The number engaged was under 500.

† Comparison of these groups for 1911 and 1921 is affected by changes in the method of classification,

SHIPPING-NUMBERS OF PERSONS FORMING, IN EACH OF THE YEARS 1910-24, THE FIRST CREWS OF VESSELS REGISTERED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM UNDER PART I OF THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1894. [Compiled from the Annual Statements of the Navigation and Shipping of the United Kingdom, prepared by the Board of Trade.]

NOTE. The figures relate to persons employed on registered vessels which were actually employed in either Home or Foreign trade or in fishing, but exclude those employed on yachts, on vessels engaged on rivers and in inland navigation, and on fishing vessels registered under Part IV only of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.

Including the Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

employed on vessels registered in the Irish Free State.

The figures for 1923 and 1924 exclude persons

Under the heading "Lascars "are included Asiatics and East Africans, whether British subjects or foreigners, employed on vessels trading between India and this country, or entirely in Asiatic or Australian waters, and serving under agreements which terminate in Asia.

SHIPPING NUMBERS AND NATIONALITIES OF ALL RATINGS ENUMER-
ATED AT QUINQUENNIAL CENSUSES 1896-1921,* AS EMPLOYED ON SEA-
GOING VESSELS (OTHER THAN YACHTS) REGISTERED IN THE UNITED
KINGDOM,† UNDER PART I OF THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1894.
[Compiled from quinquennial Returns of the Number, Ages, Ratings and
Nationalities of Seamen, prepared by the Board of Trade.]

No Census was taken in 1916. Many vessels were temporarily unemployed in June, 1921. Including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The figures in this table do not show the total numbers following the sea-service, but only those actually under agreements on the specified dates. They exclude persons employed on fishing vessels registered only under Part IV of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, but include those employed on fishing vessels registered under Part I as well as Part IV of the Act.

See Note † to first Table on this page.

§ Not separately enumerated.

NUMBER OF WORKERS* EMPLOYED ON AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS OF MORE THAN ONE ACRE, AND TOTAL NUMBER OF SUCH HOLDINGS, IN GREAT BRITAIN, ON ONE DAY IN JUNE IN EACH OF THE YEARS 1921 TO 1925.

[Compiled from the Annual Agricultural Statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries for England and Wales, and of the Board of Agriculture for Scotland.]

Total Number of Holdings of 420,133 414,715 411,673 409,383 †

Total, Regular and Casual 126,898 124,616 120,024 117,342 | 122,062

Workers

Total Number of Holdings of 496,136 490,716 487,807 485,593 t over 1 acre

The figures exclude occupiers, occupiers' wives, and domestic servants, but include members of occupiers' families working on the holdings.

† Figures not available.

The figures as to holdings exclude holdings in Scotland consisting only of mountain and heath land.

NUMBER AND SEX OF PERSONS EMPLOYED BELOW AND ABOVE GROUND AT MINES UNDER THE COAL MINES ACT AND THE METALLIFEROUS MINES REGULATION ACTS, IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,* 1873-1925.

[Extracted from the Fourth Annual Report of the Secretary for Mines supplemented by information specially supplied by the Mines Department.]

NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED AT QUARRIES UNDER THE QUARRIES ACT, 1894, IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,* 1895–1925.

[Extracted from the Fourth Annual Report of the Secretary for Mines supplemented by information specially supplied by the Mines Department.]

Statistics for 1922 and later years relate to Great Britain only.

† In 1899 a large number of workers employed outside quarries under the Quarries Act were transferred from the