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THE RURAL PROBLEM 



Minimum IV age, Effect of, on 

 landlord. 34, 35 

 Machinery of, 28, 29, 30, 31 

 in mining industry, 25, 29, 30 

 Mining industry, minimum wage 



in, 25, 29, 30~ 

 Money, Decrease in value of, 10, 



17 

 Money, L. G. Chiozza, M.P., 17, 



45, 93 

 Monmouth, 108 

 Motor service, State, 96 

 Munro, A. W., 92 



Nationalisation of land, 47, 49, 51 

 of railways, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 



Newcastle, 94 



Newhaven, 94 



Newport (Salop) a?}d District Agri- 

 cultural Trading Society, 80 



New York, 93 



Norfolk, 7, 10, 18, 20, 58 

 Chamber of Agriculture, 91 



Normandy, 91 



Northumberland, 21, 57 



Norway, Co-operative Dairies and 

 Factories in, 82 



Organisation of markets, 26, 67, 

 87, 88, 89, 90, 91 



of transit, 67, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 

 96 

 Oundle, 20 

 Output of agricultural land and 



industry, 1 , 54 ; Appendix A 

 Overcrowding, 19 

 Ownership by farmer, 66, 67, 68 



by small holder, 67, 68, 69 



Tenancv versus, 66, 67, 68, 69 

 Oxfordshire, 7, 8, 32 



Pembrokeshire, 108 



Per shore Co-operative Fruit Market 



(Ltd.), Worcestershire, 90 

 Plunkett, Sir Horace, 5, 75, 82 

 Poland, Co-operative purchase in, 



79 

 Population of urban and rural 

 districts compared, 1 , 3 ; de- 

 crease in rural districts, 2, 3, 4 

 Porter, G. K., 2 



Portsmouth, 11 

 Pratt, Edwin A., 68, 78 

 Price of building materials, 39 ; 

 Appendix I 



of land, 38 



of milk, 87, 88 



of wheat, 53 ; Appendix J 

 Prussia, Railway rates in, 94 



Queenborough , 91 



Radnorshire, 4, 91 

 Raiffeisen batiks, 78, 85, 86, 87 

 Definition of, 85 

 in Belgium, 85 

 in England, 86 

 in France, 85 

 in Germany, 85 

 in Holland, 85, 86 

 in Hungary, 85 

 in India, 86, 87 

 in Ireland, 85 

 Railway nationalisation, 91, 92, 



93, 94, 95, 96 

 Railway Rates injurious to farmers, 

 91, 92, 93, 94,95, 96 

 preference given to foreigners, 



91, 92, 93, 94 

 complications of, 94 

 Rates Grants in aid of, 109, 110, 

 111 

 lower now than 100 years ago, 



108 

 Fear of increasing, 108, 109 

 Rating system contributory cause 



of dearth of cottages, 38 

 Rent of cottages, 17, 18, 38, 39 

 of small holdings, 39 

 of tenant farms, 34, 35 ; Ap- 

 pendix H 

 Rent courts, 34 

 Ridgmount, 14 



Rowntree, B. Seebohm, 13, 54 

 Royal Com mission on railways, 93 



on afforestation, 105 

 Rural arras, census of, ] , 2, 3, 4 

 Decrease in population of, 2, 

 3,4 

 Rural District Councils, Loans to, 



:;t 

 Russell, <;.. 75 

 Russia, Afforestation in, 105 



