Contributes his account to that admirable little official
bulletin, The Oversea Settler - "ft is, perhaps, the most ideal community to be found anywhere in the world with its 350 houses, nearly all with .about.-30 acres of land attached. Here we find remarkable developments all based upon co-operation. First there is a co-operative credit society housed in a beautiful building erected three years ago at a cost of £36,000. The credit society is also the local savings_bank. _ Under the same roof is a co-operative restaurant, where the cottager and his family can get a good meal at a -reasonable price if his wife should be ill or temporarily unable to do her cooking. There is a fine theatre seating about 500; a gymnasium ; and .finally an unlimited number of hot and cold baths for the use of the villagers.". A co-operative flour-mill, a co-operative chicory factory, a co-operative malt kiln, a co-operative bakery, and not least 170,000 worth of savings in the credit bank are added to the attractions of this village of small-holders. Are such paradises quite impossible in England ? If so, why ?
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