WORK BEFORE SCHOOL
CHILDREN ON FARMS SHORTAGE OF LABOUR MEN TAKEN IN FORCES (Ter Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A statement that a boy under his charge had done half a day’s work before he came to school owing to the departure from his father’s farm of labourers to join the military forces, was made in a letter from a Bay of Plenty teacher to the Auckland Education Board today. "I fear that such eases are by no means isolated,” stated the teacher. “There is something wrong when adults can do a 44-hour week and children have to work i'rotn daylight till dark.” Mr. W. I. Bowycr, said a Minister of the Crown had stated in the press that he knew nothing of the position. i “If that was so,” added Mr. Bowver,” the Minister did not know his job. The position on farms is worse than it has been for 20 years, elderly women having to go back to the cowshed. The board referred the matter to the Education Department.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20072, 19 October 1939, Page 7
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