MASTER AND APPRENTICE BILL
LECTURE BY MR. HOLLAND, M.i\ A lecture on the Master and Apprentice Bill was lust night delivered by Mr. H. E. Holland, M.P. for Buller, in tho Alexandra llall, Abel Smith Street. The Bill that formed tho su'bject of tho lecture is at present before Parliament, and has yet to go through the ComuiiUeo stage. It .sets forth the conditions upon ma y k® brought from ths Old Country, to New Zealand in order to servo as apprentices on farms. Mr. Holland told his audience that during the second reading debate every member i "ai'liamantnry Labour Party spoke ellectively" against tho llicasurc, with the result that it was "simply torn to shreds." Tho supporters of tho Bill, ho asserted, "hnd nut a word to say,in reply." He compared the indenturing of Ixiys from Home with the indenturing of Chinese labour for Samoa. Ho said that the Bill was a menace to tho workers of this country, and that it was likely to be the precursor of indentured adult labour for New Zealand. In short, lio traversed fairly thoroughly tho arguments put forward by himself and liy his colleagues whilo opposing tho progress of the Bill in the House.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 306, 20 September 1920, Page 7
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202MASTER AND APPRENTICE BILL Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 306, 20 September 1920, Page 7
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