FROM PREFACE ROM time to time the pressure of other work has led to the postponement of the actual completion of this little volume, which had been almost written by January, 1905. In its production I have been placed under obligations to many, but especially to Mr. J. J. Dent, of the Board of Trade, who has not only given me the benefit of his long, intimate, and exceptional knowledge of the Co-operative Movement, but has, with very great kindness, undertaken to bring figures, when necessary, up to date, and to see the volume through the press during my absence from England. E. A. OFF PORT ADELAIDE April 1907 |