ployment at from 9s. to 12s. a week, and having a 

 family of ten children, was able in middle life to 

 take a little place of 12 acres. A son succeeded 

 to the old home at twenty-five years of age, and 

 married. After seven years he has taken a little 

 place of 7 J acres. 



* Results of Stock- Keeping on a Four-and-a- Half- 

 Acre Holding with Forest Rights. The freeholder 

 estimates that he has made 30 annually by his 

 forest rights for more than twenty years, and has 

 thus recovered the original cost of his freehold. 



' Results of Stock- Keeping on a Six- Acre Holding 

 with Forest Rights. Stock : three cows, one heifer, 

 one calf. Stock bought in : twenty-four pigs. 

 After charging labour hired for haymaking, empty- 

 ing pens and sties, and for all rough work, the 

 maximum net profit in a single year was 77 5s. lid., 

 and the minimum net profit 59.' 



Mr. Eyre also compiled for his evidence before 

 the Commission a statement of the number of 

 depositors in the Post Office Savings Bank in the 

 New Forest district, and the amount to their credit. 

 This return shows a proportion of one in four of 

 depositors to the population, the general proportion 

 for England and Wales being one in five. 



The average amount to each depositor's credit is 

 17 7s. lid., the average amount for England and 

 Wales being 14 12s. 2d. There is very little 

 poverty in the district. The poor relief granted is 



