Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 1740277147

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-132094

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 394 S.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XIII. Miscellaneous questions

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PART III. The Chairman of the Cotton Section, in thanking the members of the Entomological and Mycological Section for the assistance and information they had given at this meeting to the members of the Cotton Section, laid great emphasis on the desirability of the members of the Cotton Section doing all in their power to help the Entomologists in their most difficult and varied problems. Signed on behalf of the Cotton Section, S. MILLIGAN, Chairman. Nairobi, 27th of August, 1926. CHAPTER II AN ORGANIZATION OF MARKETING IN A YOUNG COTTON INDUSTRY. (This item was dealt with by the Cotton and Agricultural Sections jointly.) Mr. KIRBY made a statement as follows: — (Circulated to the Conference as paper No. T.C.(C)Cot.8). In Tanganyika Territory the war made it necessary to start the cotton industry afresh; and for this a system of auction markets for native seed-cotton was introduced in 1922 into most of the districts where seed-cotton was grown, the scheme being extended to other districts as is shown in the table at the end of this paper, as more staff in the Agricultural Department became available. The purposes of the adoption of this system (applicable of course in an area only as long as its output of cotton is comparatively small) were: (1) to ensure by close competition among buyers a fair price to the native producer; (2) to supply a means of teaching and controlling directly the sorting of cotton by natives. In the first stage the method employed was to advertise the date of the periodical auction sales, and at these the Agricultural Officer issued tickets, for the seed-cotton brought by natives and weighed in by him, each bearing particulars of the weight. The seed-cotton in its different grades was then put up to auction in lots of a weight convenient to buyers; the value of each small parcel as delivered was calculated in accordance with the price obtained at auction; and the native sellers were paid for their seed-cotton by the Agricultural Officer on the day of sale, or at the latest the day after. As the output of native cotton quickly increased it became impossible for the periodical auction markets to be conducted in this detailed way, and the scheme was widened by putting up to auction 197

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