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Industries Exhibition. The industry does not 

 seem to flourish as it ought, partly from lack of 

 working capital. The cloth being rather expensive, 

 not much is kept in stock, as the workers cannot 

 be paid till the stuff is sold ; and as the industry 

 is not advertised, they are dependent on private 

 orders. 



General Impressions. 



The whole place impressed one most favourably. 

 The holdings were, for the most part, tidy and 

 well cultivated, and the people seemed singularly 

 prosperous and contented. The undertaking has 

 evidently been the means of enabling a thrifty and 

 hard-working population to benefit by their own 

 self-help, and has established a colony of deserving 

 people securely on the soil. In several cases it has 

 been the means of bringing back men to the land 

 who had left their native place and gone in for 

 other trades. It has also raised the level of the 

 cottages on neighbouring estates, as the people 

 refuse to live in the tumble-down cottages which 

 they would otherwise have been compelled to put 

 up with. 



Conditions of Success. 



The undoubted success of the undertaking I 

 attribute to the following causes : 



First, what might be called the preliminary 

 favouring conditions 



1. That there already existed a number of small 



