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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 11

A now rango of business promises has been orocted by tho West lissex Co-operative Society, at Braintree, lit a cost of £5,000. -j.no society was started at BraintrCo twentyfivo years ago by half n dozen silk weavers, who hired a man with a wheelarrow to lake their goods out, Tho society grew in popular favour, and it has now a lnomberslnp of 1250, a subscribed capital 0f.£7000, and is doing an annual business amounting to over £25,000. Crimes against morals are so rare in Ireland tliitt in tho western counties of Mayo, Leitrim, and Sligo, and also in Cavan, they wore fewer during tho year 190G than one offence per 100,000 of tho population. This fact is shown in the Blue-book on Irish criminal statistics just issued. Tho wholo range of indictable offences.was 0-165, which represents a'rate of only very little over two offoiices (2.) for every 1000 of tho population. The cases of drunkenness (77,262) were less numerous than in any of tho preceding ten years. The Royal Irish Constab~ ulary, numbering 9910, cost £1,322,332.