AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES* GREAT BRITAIN: [Compiled by the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies from returns supplied

* The figures include Societies connected with fishing: these Societies, however, materially affect the figures. In addition to the Societies classified as Agricultural, and dairying departments in 1924. In that year they employed 2,880 persons in productions in these departments amounted to £1,592,000.

Requirement Societies are those whose principal function is to supply their agriculture, and with fishing tackle, etc., in the case of fishing. Produce Societies deal in both requirements and produce (see Note ‡).

Sales of produce by Requirement Societies (amounting in 1924 to £949,000) Produce Societies (amounting in 1924 to £233,000) are included in the totals for § Figures for 1912 for Requirement and Produce Societies include Irish Societies. || Service Societies include not only Societies registered under the Industrial nection with agriculture, e.g., threshing, but also Small Holdings and Allotments the Friendly Societies Act, viz., Cattle Insurance Societies, Agricultural Credit Exclusive of profit or loss on year for Cattle Insurance Societies and Societies Friendly Societies Act, for which particulars are not available.

** Exclusive of wages in respect of Small Holdings and Allotments Societies, Note ), for which particulars are not available.

These Societies are included in the Service Societies for which particulars are

NUMBER, MEMBERSHIP AND OTHER STATISTICS, 1912-1924. to his Department: for detailed particulars see the "Ministry of Labour November, 1925.]

are few in number and their transactions are on so small a scale that they do not figures for which are given in these Tables, 196 Industrial Societies had farming such departments, to whom £290,000 was paid in wages; and the value of members with seeds, manures, utensils or other requirements in the case of are chiefly concerned with the marketing of members' produce. Some Societies are included in the totals for Requirement Societies; sales of requirements by Produce Societies.

Separate particulars for Great Britain for this year are not available. and Provident Societies Acts, which supply members with some service in conSocieties and Credit Societies, and in addition certain Societies registered under Societies, and Societies for the promotion of horticulture and agriculture. formed for the promotion of horticulture and agriculture, registered under the Credit Societies, and Societies registered under the Friendly Societies Act (see

CO-OPERATIVE BANKS AND LOAN SOCIETIES GREAT BRITAIN : NUMBER, MEMBERSHIP, SURPLUS, SHARE, &c., CAPITAL AND RESERVES, AND DEPOSIT AND CURRENT ACCOUNTS, 1912-1924.

[Compiled from the Reports of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, supplemented by information specially supplied by the Chief Registrar.]

Note. The particulars in the above Table are dominated by those of the Co-operative Wholesale Society's Banking department, which functions largely as a clearing house for the transactions between the Trading department of the C.W.S. and the Purchasing Societies.

Includes balances of profit carried forward as unappropriated at the end of each year, but in the aggregate, the amount of such balances is not available.

+ Includes Bank Balance of C.W.S. Trading department.

CO-OPERATIVE LAND AND HOUSING SOCIETIES GREAT BRITAIN: NUMBER, MEMBERSHIP, SURPLUS, CAPITAL, VALUE OF LAND AND BUILDINGS, AND AMOUNT OWING BY MEMBERS FOR PROPERTY, 1912-1924.

[Compiled from the Reports of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, supplemented by information specially supplied by the Chief Registrar.]

Includes balances of profit carried forward as unappropriated at the end of each year. At the end of 1924 such balances aggregated (90,954.

CO-OPERATIVE CLUBS- -GREAT BRITAIN: NUMBER, MEMBERSHIP, SALES OF REFRESHMENTS, SURPLUS AND LIABILITIES, 1912-1924. [Compiled from the Reports of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, supplemented by information specially supplied by the Chief Registrar.]

At the end of 1924 the net balance of accumulated profit and reserve amounted to £1,023,065.
† Approximate-actual figures not available for these years,
Loss.

INDUSTRIAL, AGRICULTURAL, &c., CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES*– NORTHERN IRELAND: NUMBER, MEMBERSHIP, SALES, SHARE AND LOAN CAPITAL, AND NET BALANCE OF PROFIT AND RESERVE, 1921-1923.

[Extracted from the Ulster Year Book, 1926.]

I. Summary Statistics, 1921-1923.

II. Statistics for 1923, Classified according to Type of Society.

• See footnote on pages 192-3.

NUMBER, MEMBERSHIP AND FUNDS OF SOCIETIES
GREAT BRITAIN,

[Compiled from the Annual Reports of the