THE RURAL PROBLEM 



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APPENDIX B. 



REPORT OF AN INQUIRY BY THE BOARD OF TRADE 

 INTO THE EARNINGS AND HOURS OF LABOUR OF 

 WORKPEOPLE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. V.— 

 AGRICULTURE IN 1907. (Cd. 5460.) 1910. 



England. 



P. xvi. : " Including the estimated value of food or board and 

 lodging, when provided, and of all other allowances in kind, the 

 average weekly earnings in 1907 of the four classes of workpeople 

 are given for each district in the table below. The value of 

 cottage has been taken as £4 per annum, and board and lodging 

 has been computed at £20 16s. per annum (8s. per week). The 

 average stated represents not the earnings during a given week, 

 but an average of the weekly earnings during the whole year, and 

 takes into consideration the effect of any extra earnings at the 

 busy seasons, and of any reductions during the winter period, or 

 when work was stopped by bad weather or other causes. 



Average Weekly Earnings in 1907 of 



District. 



Northern Counties... 

 Yorkshire, Lancashire and 



Cheshire ... 

 North and West Midland 



Counties ... 

 South Midland and Eastern 



Counties ... 

 South-F.astern Counties ... 

 South- Western Counties ... 



Total— England ... 



" It will be observed that in all four occupations earnings in 

 the Northern Counties, Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire, and 

 the South-Eastern Counties were above the general averages for 

 England, whilst in the South Midland and Eastern Counties and 

 the South- Western Counties they were below those averages." 



Ordinary Labourers. 



P. xvii. : " The following table gives for each county and 

 district, except Northumberland and Durham, the average weekly 

 earnings in 1907 of ordinary agricultural labourers, and shows how 



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