THE LABOR MARKET.
To the editor. Sw,--In last week's Star I noticed a paragraph which gave a very good and true statement of Edinburgh and the High School. There is no douVt but there are sent there every year many grand and noble gentlemen; but what about the fr *e bchools, which do so much good to the working class? They get all bocks free and are taught by first-class teachers, and if the gentlemen of Dunedin would get up Echools here that would fix a less fee than what is charged it would be better, I think. lam sure there would Jbe less children running about getting taught to do what they like. I have a* family of three, one of which is a little girl seven years old, ai:d she has had to be withdrawn from school because I had not her last quarter's fee. She cries and wants to go to school, and aaVs me why I have no money now, and why can't father get work. We never knew what it was to want money and a comfortable homo till we came here to break it up and be brought to the depth of begaary. Now about the free* doctors of Edinburgh. They have a dispensary at the north side and one at the south side of the town, where a doctor or medicine can be got at almost anytime. 1 have been very bad for two weeks and could not walk to the Hospital, nor had I any money to pay for a cab, and no doctor would come without I had 10s Cd to pay down. We have' been here ten monthß, and my husband has had no more than, four months' work out of that time. He served twelve and a-half years in the ' Scotsman' newspaper office, Edinburgh, as machuieman, and come out here to work at the same trade, being told when he landed to take time and he would get work at hia own trade in a week or two. They put him to the pick and shovel, and when the job was done he was told to go and find work. He has tried many a house and place, but without the least chance. Can the gentlemen of Dunedin do nothing to prevent this distress amongst the working classes!-I am, 4c, ' A. M. Dunedin, August 2.
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Evening Star, Issue 4192, 3 August 1876, Page 2
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396THE LABOR MARKET. Evening Star, Issue 4192, 3 August 1876, Page 2
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