Land Problems and National Welfare 



wage, and enable us to say whether any given 

 families possess a margin of income available 

 for thrift, or whether, in expecting them to save 

 money, we are expecting what can only be done 

 at the cost of physical deterioration." 



AGRICULTURAL LABOURER 



Income 14s. per week 

 (Number in family not stated) 



In addition there was the produce from the 

 garden. 



The average income of a labourer's family, 

 assuming that the man is in regular work (losing 

 3j weeks from bad weather, work on allotments, 

 and holidays), and that there is no other bread 

 winner, is as follows : — 



40^ weeks' labour at 13s. i^d. 



4 » M )> 1 6s. 



4 >» »' »' 24s. 



Profit on allotment, garden, pigs, 

 Charities, gleanings, etc. 



Equals i6s. 4d. per week. 

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