Who says there isj|no such thng as slavery in New Zealand ? An eighteon-year-old girl in Taranaki rises to prove the contrary. She told an astonished Benoh last week that for some months she had got up at five' in the morning, milked 23 cows, assisted in the household work, washed tins, harnessed up the horse, fed the calves, cleaned out the bails,, got dinner ready, milked 23 cows again in the evening, and finished her duties at 7.30, thus working: 14£ hours daily-—and all for 12s a week and found. And yet there are soores of mistresses; in the cities offering easy billets and all sorts of luxuries and privileges and unable to get help of-any kind —Observer.
GREAT REDUCTION SALE R. & E PARKER’S, Of Ladiec' and-Children’s READY-MADE CLOTHING A Special Line in Muslin and Prints, Greatly Seduced. LADIES’ HATS; trimmed, untrimmed, and ready to wear, at a very low price. Goods mUBt be sold to make room for Winter StockDon’t Forget the Name: B. AND E. PABKEB, Opposite Fireball Tower, Gladstone Boad
J.-E.; WHITBY. GENERAL' STOREKEEPER, Gladstone Road. GROCERIES IRONMONGERY BRUSHiWARE CRQCKERYWARE CASH BUYER of Sheepskins, ■ Wool, and Farm Produce; AGENT for—--33,. Newton’s PRIZE EGGS,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1393, 2 March 1905, Page 1
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