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responding fall in the value of smaller holdings. 

 The average rent for the larger farms is from 12s. 

 to 18s. an acre ; for those between 20 and 100 

 acres, 25s. to 30s. ; for the smaller holdings, 

 2, tithe free. The tenant pays rates and taxes. 



WAGES OF DISTRICT, ETC. 



Regular farm-labourers receive 10s. to 11s. a 

 week, with extra harvest money; stockmen, etc., 

 get up to 15s. ; 2s. 6d. and 3s. a day is paid for odd 

 days' work. 



For the small holders doing job work there is a 

 certain amount of labour in the woods, carting 

 and roadwork ; and where a number of small men 

 are collected together there is always work for 

 some of them as higglers. 



EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY AMONGST SMALL 

 HOLDERS IN THE DISTRICT. 



No better evidences of prosperity could be wished 

 for than the instances of results obtained by small 

 holders known to Mr. Eyre, and given by him in 

 his evidence before the Royal Commission on 

 Agricultural Depression. 



I cannot do better than quote a few examples 

 from this source : 



* Results of Stock-Keeping on a House Plot and 

 One Acre of Land with Common Rights. The 

 occupier, an agricultural labourer in regular em- 



