TABLE 27. Estimated Average Rent per Acre of Agricultural Holdings of Different Sizes in each Agricultural Division of England and Wales at end of 1925. TABLE 28. Estimated Average Value per Acre of Agricultural Holdings of Different Sizes in each Agricultural Division of England and Wales at end of 1925. TABLE 29. Estimated Average Amount of Tenants' Capital per Acre required for Holdings of Different Sizes in each Agricultural Division of England and Wales at end of 1925. TABLE 30. Average Wages and Index Numbers of Agricultural Wages. (See Chapter VIII.) For the purpose of the above Table the average wage of agricultural workers in 1914 has been taken at 18s., made up of 16s. 9d., which is estimated to have been the average cash earnings of ordinary agricultural male workers, and Is. 3d., which is estimated as the average value of the allowances in kind received by such workers. No particulars can be given of the changes in wages between 1914 and 1917 when the minimum wage of 258. was established by the Corn Production Act. The figures with which the wage of 188. in 1914 are compared, so far as the period of the first Wages Board is concerned, are the average minimum wages for ordinary workers in force at various periods. During the period of the Conciliation Committees, when no minimum rates were in force, the figures given are those which are believed to have been the average obtaining throughout the country in each year. After the establishment of the second Agricultural Wages Board, the minimum wage for ordinary agricultural workers has again been taken for the purpose of comparison. No allowance has been made for the regular extra earnings of the special classes of workers (i.e., horsemen, stockmen, shepherds, &c.), nor has any allowance been made for additional earnings on harvest and other seasonal work. Were such allowance made the average wages would no doubt be higher throughout, but it is not likely that any great difference would be made in the comparative index numbers given in the above Table. In calculating the index numbers no account is taken of the changes which have taken place in the hours of work; whilst information with regard to the average hours of work of agricultural workers before the war is somewhat vague, it appears probable that the number of hours for which the pre-war wage of 18s. was payable was somewhat in excess of the average hours on which the present minimum rates are based. Printed under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office Statistics relating to Criminal Proceedings, Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. The Returns relating to Police pursuant to Statute 19 & 20 Vict. c. 69. LONDON PRINTED ANd published BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses Adastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2; 120, George Street, Edinburgh: York Street, Manchester; t, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff 15, Donegall Square West, Belfast or through any Bookseller. 1927 Price 4s. od. Net. Cmd. 2811. |