No. 391/1939:

STATISTICS (CENSUS OF PRODUCTION) ORDER, 1939.

STATISTICS (CENSUS OF PRODUCTION) ORDER, 1939.

THE STATISTICS (CENSUS OF PRODUCTION) ORDER, 1939, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE UNDER SUB-SECTION (1) OF SECTION 16 of THE STATISTICS ACT, 1926 .

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (1) of Section 16 of the Statistics Act, 1926 , that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, by order, do all or any of the following things, that is to say :—

(a) prescribe the subject-matter, nature, character and periodicity of the statistics to be collected under this Act, and the time at or the occasion on which the same are to be collected ;

(b) prescribe, subject to the provisions of this section, the person or classes of persons by whom returns are to be made or information is to be given for the purpose of any statistics collected under this Act ;

(c) make regulations for the collection, compilation, abstraction, or publication of statistics generally or any particular class or classes of statistics under this Act ;

(d) prescribe the schedules, forms, instructions and other documents to be used in the collection, compilation, abstraction, or publication of statistics generally or of any particular class or classes of statistics under this Act ;

(e) prescribe any matter or thing which is referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed by regulations made under this Act ;

NOW, therefore, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in pursuance of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (1) of Section 16 of the Statistics Act, 1926 , and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, does hereby order :—

1. Statistics in respect of the year 1939 shall be collected in the year 1940 of the following subject-matter, nature and character, that is to say, with respect to the industries, trades and businesses set out in the First Part of the Schedule hereto, the information, returns and particulars set out in the Second Part of the said Schedule, in so far as the same shall be required in respect of each of the said industries, trades and businesses by prescribed forms.

2. The following are the persons or classes of persons by whom returns are to be made or information is to be given for the purpose of the said statistics, that is to say, every person carrying on any of the industries, trades and businesses set out in the First Part of the Schedule hereto.

3. The said statistics shall be collected by means of prescribed forms, which shall be transmitted by post on or before the 1st day of March in the year 1940 to all persons by whom returns are to be made or information is to be given in respect of the preceding year and shall be returned duly filled up and completed by such persons, by post, on or before the 6th day of April in the year 1940.

4. The Interpretation Act, 1923 , applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

5. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Statistics (Census of Production), Order, 1939.

By order of the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

Dated this 27th day of December, 1939.

R. C. FERGUSON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.

SCHEDULE.

FIRST PART.

INDUSTRIES, TRADES AND BUSINESSES.

Food, Drink and Tobacco.

Manufacture of :—Bread, Biscuits and Flour Confectionery : Sugar Confectionery and Jam ; Sugar ; Preserved Fish, Fruit and Vegetables ; Pickles and Sauces ; Butter, Cheese, Condensed and Dried Milk and Margarine ; Aerated Waters, Cider, Cordials and Cognate Liquors ; Tobacco.

Grain Milling Trade ; Fish Curing Trade; Bacon Curing, Preserved Meat and Sausage Trades ; Brewing Trade ; Malting Trade ; Spirit Distilling and Rectifying of Spirits Trade.

Textiles.

Manufacture of :—Linen and Cotton Goods ; Woollen and Worsted Goods ; Silk, Artificial Silk and Poplin Goods ; Lace and Embroidery ; Hosiery Goods ; Jute and Hemp Goods ; Canvas Goods and Sacks ; Rope, Twine and Nets ; Elastics ; Bootlaces.

Fibre, Horsehair and Feather Trades.

Apparel.

Manufacture of :—Clothing ; Boots and Shoes ; Corsets ; Underclothing (not Hosiery) ; Hats, Bonnets and Caps; Umbrellas and Walking Sticks.

Wood and Timber.

Manufacture of :—Furniture ; Cabinetware, Upholstery ; Baskets and Wicker Work ; Wooden Crates, Boxes, and Cases and Trunks.

Timber and Sawmilling Trade ; Coopering Trade.

Metals and Metal Manufactures.

Manufacture of :—Iron and Steel ; Tinplate ; Metal other than Iron and Steel ; Tools and Implements ; Hardware, Hollow-ware and Bedsteads ; Jewellery, Goldsmiths' Ware, Silversmiths' Ware and Electro-plated Ware ; Watches and Clocks ; Optical Goods and Scientific Instruments, Appliances and Apparatus.

Blacksmiths' Trades ; Finished Brass Trades ; Engineering Trade ; Heating, Ventilating and Sanitary Engineering Trades ; the Electrical Engineering Trade.

Assembly, Construction and Repair of Vehicles.

Assembly, Construction and Repair of :—Carriages, Carts and Wagons ; Railway Engines, Carriages and Wagons ; Perambulators ; Motor Vehicles, Motor Cycles and Pedal Cycles ; Manufacture of Parts for Vehicles.

Chemicals, Oils and Paints.

Manufacture of :—Paints, Colours and Varnishes ; Soap and Candles ; Oils, Grease and Tallow ; Vegetable Oils and Fats ; Industrial Alcohol ; Fertilisers and Glue ; Starch, Blue, Ink and Polishes.

Chemical and Allied Trades ; Seed Crushing and Animal Food Trades ; Explosives.

Paper and Printing.

Paper and Cardboard-box making Trades ; Wallpaper ; Playing Cards ; Printing and Bookbinding Trades ; Printing and Publication of Newspapers and Periodicals ; Manufactured Stationery Trade ; Electrotyping, Engraving, Process-block Making, etc.

Brick, Cement, Glass, Etc.

Manufacture of :—Monumental Masonry and Building Materials ; Cement ; Bricks and Fireclay Goods ; China and Earthenware Goods ; Glass and Glassware ; Statuary ; Lime ; Whiting.

Hides, Skins and Leather.

Manufacture of :—Leather ; Saddlery and Harness and other Goods of Leather and Imitation Leather ; Furs.

Fellmongery Trade.

Shipbuilding and Boat Building.

Building and Repairing of Ships and Boats.

Other Industries, Trades and Businesses.

Manufacture of :—Artificial Flowers ; Dentures and Denture bases ; Games, Toys and Sports Requisites ; Musical Instruments ; Wireless Sets ; Articles of Horn or Ivory ; Picture Frames and Fancy Goods ; Brushes and Brooms ; Ice ; Matches ; Bakelite Articles ; Floor Coverings (including Linoleum), not of Textile Materials ; Felt Roofing ; Pencils, Crayons, etc. ; Typewriting requisites ; Rubber Manufactures ; Fibre Attaché and Suit Cases ; Peat Briquettes ; Kelp ; Combs ; Buttons ; Tobacco Pipes ; Gramophone Records.

Mining and Quarrying Industries.

SECOND PART.

The expression " the year " in this Part of this Schedule means the year beginning 1st day of January, 1939 and ending 31st day of December, 1939.

INFORMATION, RETURNS AND PARTICULARS.

No. 1.—General Particulars Regarding Establishment.

(a) Name under which establishment is working.

(b) Nature of industry, trade or business.

(c) Location or postal address of place where goods are manufactured or produced. In cases where the same firm or establishment produces goods at different places not situated in the same town, a separate return may be required for each branch.

(d) Year when first established. If the industry, trade or business changed hands during 1939 dates and particulars of such change are required.

No. 2.—Products Manufactured and Work Performed During the Year.

(a) The quantity and value of each of the principal products given separately.

A specification of all other products and their aggregate total value.

(b) The amounts received for contract work on materials provided by others ; the amounts received for repairs done for others.

No. 3.—Materials, Etc., Used.

Quantity and cost at the works of all materials used in producing or manufacturing the products of which particulars are required under No. 2 above, or used in all repair work done during the year ; cost of containers and other packing materials sold with the goods.

No. 4.—Fuel, Electricity, Etc., used during the Year.

Particulars of the cost at works of the different kinds of fuel, oils and electricity, etc., used during the year are required.

No. 5.—Amounts Paid for Contract Work.

Amounts paid for contract work done by persons other than employees of the establishment, on material furnished by the establishment in connection with the products of which particulars are required under No. 2 above.

No. 6.—Persons Employed.

A.—Number of persons engaged in the industry, trade or business during the week ended 14th October, 1939, or nearest representative date, distinguishing males and females, and those under 18 years of age and those 18 years of age, and over.

Administrative, Clerical and Technical Staff.

(a) Proprietors working in the business.

(b) Salaried employees, including managing directors, managers, clerks, typists, store bookkeepers, travelling agents, and all other salaried employees.

Wage-earners (not Outside Piece-workers).

(c) Industrial workers at the factory, works, etc. (including foremen).

(d) Storekeepers, packers, messengers, porters, carters, etc.

Wage-earners (Outside Piece-workers).

(e) Where, in addition to the above, workers are employed in their own homes, the approximate number employed during the week ended 14th October, 1939.

B.—Total number of wage-earners (not outside piece-workers)—corresponding to (c) and (d) above—actually at work during certain specified weeks in 1939.

No. 7.—Salaries and Wages Paid and Hours Worked.

(a) Salaries—Total amount paid during the year to salaried employees, i.e., to such persons of the kind mentioned in No. 6 A (b) (amounts drawn by proprietors working in the business are not to be included).

(b) Wages and Earnings—Wages paid during the year to wage-earners, including outside piece-workers, i.e., to persons of the kind mentioned in No. 6 A (c), (d) and (e), distinguishing payments made to outside piece-workers from payments made to wage-earners who are not outside piece-workers.

(c) Weekly Earnings and Hours worked—Total earnings of, and hours actually worked, by wage-earners (not outside piece-workers) in the week ended 14th October, 1939, distinguishing males and females and those under 18 years of age and those 18 years of age and over.

(d) Distribution of Wage-earners by Earnings—Number of wage-earners (not outside piece-workers) with specified earnings in the week ended 14th October, 1939, distinguishing males and females and those under 18 years of age and those 18 years of age and over.