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to ij per cent, of the profits, on the value of the produce 

 they had sent in for sale. 



Incidentally it might be mentioned, in connection with 

 the Pershore co-operative auction market, that whilst the 

 commission system will, no doubt, always remain as a 

 means of distributing fruit and market garden produce, 

 many salesmen are finding that they cannot get, on the 

 commission principle, all the produce they want, and they 

 have, therefore, of late years, purchased largely at fixed 

 prices direct from the grower ; though these fixed prices 

 have in many instances been considerably below what the 

 grower might have got had a rural auction market been 

 available. Hence the special significance of the course 

 taken at Pershore; though, in effect, the growers there 

 did no more than follow, consciously or otherwise, the 

 example already set and with no less success in their case, 

 also by the fruit and market garden produce growers 

 of Holland. 



At Nantwich (Cheshire) a problem closely resembling 

 that which arose at Pershore, but relating to a different 

 class of produce, is being dealt with. The Urban District 

 Council own a market building in which a general market 

 is held every Saturday ; but Saturday is too late in the 

 week for the purposes of a wholesale market for farm and 

 garden produce, poultry, eggs, etc., and local sellers and 

 buyers of such produce have hitherto had to go to Crewe 

 (4 miles distant), Sandbach (8 miles), and other places. 

 What was specially desired was that Nantwich should have 

 a weekly wholesale market of its own which would not only 

 serve local purposes but attract buyers from Manchester, 

 Liverpool, and other large towns of Lancashire and the 

 Staffordshire Potteries. Such desire has now been attained 

 through the formation, again with the help of the A. O. S., 

 of a co-operative society known as the Nantwich Wholesale 

 Produce Market, Ltd., at whose disposal the Urban District 

 Council have placed their market building in return for a 

 nominal rental. 



Altogether there are over twenty co-operative societies 



