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growing districts, namely, the midland and eastern 

 counties : — 



Districts. 



Changes in 1896 as com- 

 pared with 1895. 



Changes in 1895 as com- 

 pared with 1894. 



Total Number 

 affected. 



Net change 

 per head 

 per wcelv* 



Total 

 number 



1 



Net change 

 per head 



L/C I » CtiV* 



Northern Counties - 

 Yorks, Lancashire, and 



Cheshire 

 Eastern and Midland 



Counties 

 Southern and Western 



Counties 

 Wales 



Total numbers and net 

 change of wages - 



5,662 

 2,897 

 69,869 

 20,901 



s. d. 



- 0 if 



+ 0 8| 

 + 0 2± 



- 0 4 



3,766 



3,942 



89,576 



20,441 

 2,165 



s. d. 



+ O 2| 



- 0 7f 



- 0 5^ 



- 0 6f 

 + 0 81 



99,329 



+ 0 1 



119,890 



- 0 51 



In Scotland information has been obtained from a number 

 of employers of agricultural labour in each county, and also 

 as to the rates of wages obtained at a number of hiring 

 markets. The farm servants are all hired yearly or half- 

 yearly, and very few changes have taken place ; where 

 changes have been made they have not been of sufficient 

 importance to affect the wages of any particular class. 



In Ireland information has been received with regard to 

 the wages of agricultural labourers in each count y, and no 

 material changes are reported to have taken place. 



Money Lending. — Report from the Select Committee on Money 

 Lending, tog-ether with the proceedings of the Committee, 

 minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index. [H.C. — 364.] 

 Price 2s. gd. 



This publication contains the evidence already taken 

 before the Select Committee appointed to inquiry into the 

 alleged evils attending money-lending transactions at high 

 rates of interest, or under oppressive conditions as to repay- 



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