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above, to the fostering of technical knowledge. Instructionclasses were held in cotton industry, shorthand, botany, physic-logy, hygiene, book-keeping, and dressmaking The societypossessed a library of 13,075 volumes, besides several reading-rooms supplied with numerous newspapers and journals. It alsoarranged tea meetings, balls, entertainments, etc.
Respecting house-building by the societies, I received the follow-ing communication from the Baeup Society’s committee:—“The'average price for which we sell houses to our members amounts to£210. The society gets the houses built on contract by localbuilders, and sells them by auction, when ready, to its members.These either pay the whole price at once, or must pay interest forthe amount left owing, and, in addition, £1 10s. every quarter,until the whole amount is paid off. If they wish to pay morespeedily, it is, of course, accepted. The living rooms are 5 ellswide and 4 ells long, the kitchens 2 to 3 ells; behind the housethere is a yard 12 ells square. A storey high are 2 to 3 bedrooms.A lobby runs the whole length of the house (from back to front.)”
In another co-operative society the houses were paid for within19 years, under the following scheme, on the basis of 3 per cent.
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