ITALY. 



MISCElvIyANEOUS NEWvS. 



I. — Rural banks and agricultural co-operative credit societies 

 OF collective title in ITALY AT THE END OF 1913. — The Fedetazione 

 nazionale delle Casse rurali (National Federation of Rural Banks) in Rome 

 has recently published a list of the Rural Banks in the kingdom on Decem- 

 ber 31st., 1913. Their number at that date was 2, 122, distributed according 

 to regions as follows : 



North Italv 



Central Italy 



Venetia 452 



Emilia 306 



Lombardy 246 



Piedmont 171 



Liguria , 12 



Total 



1,187 



Ivatium 102 



Tuscany 71 



Marches 67 



Umbria • . . . 20 



Total 



260 



South Italv 



Insular Italy 



Abruzzi and MoUse 



Campania 



Calabria 



ApuUa 



BasiHcata . . . . , 



Total 



83 

 55 



44 



25 



7 



214 



vSicily . . 

 Sardinia . 



Total . 



333 



128 



461 



The provinces which have the largest number of Banks areVerona(i07), 

 Rome (102), Bologna (88), Palermo (81), CagUari (94), Girgenti (74) etc. At 

 the end of 1910, when the first hst of rural banks was made out by the above 

 Federation, the number was 1,763. 



(Summarised irom " Coopcrazionc Rurale " , organ of the Fcdcruzione tuiziuiiule 

 delle Cafise rurali, Rome. no. i, January 31st., 1914)- 



