MAORI GIRLS AND MARKET GARDENS.
It lias been decided by the Gov--ernment that the iSpeeial Committee which lias been conducting investigations into the conditions of the employment of Maori girls in Chin, ese market gardens in the Waikato shall also make inquiries in the Otaki and Wanganui districts. The committee is to report to the Minister of Native Affairs on the question of Maori girls living with Chinese; the extent to which Maoris arc employed by Asiatics or Europeans in market gardens, and the circumstances under which they are .employed, with regard to payment, housing, and general health and sanitary conditions; and whether it is ini the interests of public morality that the employment of Maori girls and women by Chinese and Indians should be permitted. The members of the committee are Dr. T. j. Hughes, medical ipfifieer of health, Auckland; Mr. W. Slaughter, representing the Labour Department; and Mr. Tukere te Anga, representing the Native Department.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 4002, 26 September 1929, Page 3
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157MAORI GIRLS AND MARKET GARDENS. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 4002, 26 September 1929, Page 3
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