﻿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