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APPENDIX 5.
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Statement showing the number of occupiers of agricultural holdings over one acre in extent within an approximate radius of five miles of certain towns, who returned four or more dairy cattle* on the 4th June, 1932 (Ministry of Agriculture's annual livestock).
Town or group of towns.
Liverpool, Birkenhead and St. Helens
census of
Number of
occupiers.
400
Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Walsall
402
Blackburn...
553
Bolton
338
Bradford, Halifax, Leeds and Huddersfield†
1,280
Brighton
36
Bristol
308
Burnley
598
Coventry
324
Croydon
49
Derby
498
East and West Ham and Leyton
14
Gateshead, Newcastle, South Shields and Sunderland
323
Hull
303
Leicester
210
Manchester, Salford and Stockport...
502
Southend ...
53
Middlesbrough
204
Portsmouth
57
Southampton
161
Norwich
135
Nottingham
188
Plymouth...
336
Stoke-on-Trent
492
Sheffield
Preston
Blackpool
Oldham
179
656
Bournemouth
65
244
281
Cardiff
Rhondda
Swansea
Total
193
123
79
9,584
Annex to appendix 5.
In submitting the above statement, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries wrote:-
The 5-mile radius was taken in every case from approximately the centre of the town, but, where a parish fell reasonably within the circle, all the occupiers in that parish returning four or more dairy cattle have been included.
Where the circle round one town definitely overlapped that round another, or where the towns adjoin, the towns have been grouped; it would be difficult to allocate certain parts of a parish to one town and other parts to its neighbour.
London has been omitted from the statement. The small numbers of cowkeepers found round the East and West Ham group and Croydon indicate how far it is necessary to go outside London before the area is reached where dairy cattle keepers are found in any numbers.
The imperfections of the figures given in the statement as an indication of the number of producer-retailers in the country are, of course, very obvious; for instance, some cow keepers within the 5-mile radius may not be producer-retailers, while there may be numbers of producer-retailers outside the radius. The figures supplied should, therefore, be used with great reserve.
* i.e., cows or heifers in milk or in calf.
The overlap in this group was not so pronounced as in the other groups; the four towns might almost have been considered individually.
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