INDUSTRIAL. AGRICULTURAL. 
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Productive Associations or Workers—Proportion op Mem 
bers of Committees of Management who were respec 
tively Employees, other individual Members, and 
Representatives of Societies, 1899-1910. 
[ Compiled from Returns made to the Labour Department.~\ 
Number 
Number and Proportion of Committee-men who were 
of 
Year. 
Societies 
to which 
the Par 
ticulars 
relate. 
Employees. 
Other Individual 
Members. 
Representatives of 
Societies. 
Total 
Commit 
tee-men. 
No. 
Percen 
tage. 
No. 
Percen 
tage. 
No. 
Percen 
tage. 
1899 ... 
88 
334 
40-3 
360 
43.4 
135 
16-3 
829 
1900 ... 
88 
333 
40-4 
355 
43-1 
136 
16-5 
824 
1901 ... 
91 
368 
43-8 
337 
40-2 
134 
16-0 
839 
1902 ... 
88 
302 
38-2 
342 
43-3 
146 
18-5 
790 
1903 ... 
92 
314 
38-1 
357 
43-3 
153 
18-6 
824 
1904 ... 
101 
369 
40-8 
379 
41-9 
157 
17-3 
905 
1905 ... 
89 
309 
38-4 
371 
46-2 
124 
15-4 
804 
1906 ... 
97 
297 
35-1 
390 
46-0 
160 
18-9 
847 
1907 ... 
86 
301 
38-2 
352 
44-6 
136 
17-2 
789 
1908 ... 
84 
290 
36-7 
367 
46-5 
133 
16-8 
790 
1909 ... 
83 
292 
38-9 
314 
41-8 
145 
19-3 
751 
1910 ... 
78 
256 
36-5 
297 
42-4 
148 
21-1 
701 
Examining the figures in relation to 1910 contained in the two 
preceding tables, it will be observed that the total share and 
loan capital of the 78 Societies here referred to amounted to 
,£663,121, of which 12‘3 per cent, belonged to the employees, 
35'8 per cent, to other individual members, and 43'5 per cent, to 
other Societies; while the remaining 8'4 per cent, consisted of 
bank overdrafts and non-members’ loans. 
Of the 701 members of the Management Committees of these 
Societies 36'5 per cent, were employees, 42'4 per cent, other 
individuals, and 21'1 per cent, representatives of Retail (Store) 
Societies, etc., holding shares in these Productive Societies. It may 
be added that as regards the proportion of the production which was 
under the direct control of the employees, the returns received 
by the Department show that in 19 Societies (with 37‘2 per cent, 
of the total sales of the 78 Societies) the employees were not 
represented on the Managing Committees; in 39 Societies (with 
27'2 per cent, of the sales) some of the Committee-men, but less 
than a majority, were employees; while in 20 Societies (with 
35-6 per cent, of the total sales of the 78 Societies) employees 
formed the majority of the Managing Committee. Of these 
20 Societies 14 were engaged in the manufacture of boots and 
shoes. 
B.—AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES. 
Productive Societies. 
The number of Agricultural Productive Societies in existence 
at the end of each of the years 1899-1910, the number of these