80 THE EVESHAM DISTRICT 



has this year secured about 10 acres of land for 

 building-sites at 120 an acre. 



Money for building a house is advanced to anyone 

 who has been a purchasing member of the society 

 for twelve months, the loan not to exceed 300. 



Interest is charged at the rate of 4 per cent., 

 and repayments have to be made monthly at 

 the rate of not less than 10s. lOd. per month 

 per 100 advanced ; 4 per cent, per annum is also 

 charged for working expenses. The society also 

 builds houses for purchase, the purchaser either 

 in the first instance paying a guarantee fee of 

 10 per cent, on the total cost, or, when a tenant of 

 the house he desires to purchase, he pays the instal- 

 ment weekly as rent. To save expense in convey- 

 ing, when a piece of land is acquired to be cut up 

 for building or gardening purposes, the first convey- 

 ance is drawn up by a solicitor, and the others 

 printed with spaces for names of purchasers, area 

 and price, to be filled in as required. 



Degree of Success. 



There are numerous cases of men now in good 

 positions and doing business on a large scale who 

 started life with nothing at all. They will be 

 found to have risen by gradually adding more land 

 as they got their former lots established under 

 permanent crops, and at a certain point they all 

 become fruit-dealers to some extent. The smaller 

 men are undoubtedly for the most part doing well, 

 but they have to work hard ; and where a good 



