...TARANAKI CHILD SLAVERY ... REFUTED.
FURTHER INTERVIEWS. Press Association. ELTHAM, Nov. 4. Further interviews have been published in the Argus with reference to the allegation of child slavery in Taranaki. A farmer of Rawhitiroa days that children may milk 9 or 10 cows at the very outside. A school teacher refutes the charges, and says children may get up a.t 5 o’clock, also instancing how inspectors sometimes are led to wrong conclusions. Mr. W. H. V. Bindon, who inspected the Taranaki schools for a number of years, says that 10 or 15 years ago there were abuses. Children fell asleep at examinations as the result of their labors at home. He does not know the general conditions for past years. Speaking for his own district (Rawhitiroa), he says the charge is not now justified, but children get drowsy during the day, and he knows that when the milking season is on, further, it is impossible to get home lessons done..
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2229, 5 November 1907, Page 2
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