HOURS FOR BOYS.
«'*? .*^, •**s?*- 0 f„£ HI ? .WAirpAEP.,-), rigßt th *^ boys and vonths should be kept at work m a printing office till "after midnight. SureTf-the law is not.to bet thus ignored. In any other town but this, the police" would interfere. To my mind it is most objectionable and I wonder, the parents allow their children" to ieprired of their proper rest and Ihado work, lon» after everybody jelse is^ih bed, for "the* sake of the paltry extra earnings of sixpence an hour for 6ve/time, which 1 believe is what they receive. I passed the rear of the office : referred to a night or two agOi> and the pandemonium within was something dreadful. lamsure/the'propfie":o'r of |h¥ 'office, himself a parent, a J.P., and V reliS!? v8 t m an, . cannot: be aw.aro -what goes; on when these ladalareJeft V their own devices.;, . I n ca.n :r assure; > him r thatothe *»| obscemty and nrofanity. ipdulged m is I somethingabWinable,*and what else oaa . °S e f T Ve is also the .very senons risk pt fire} to,be , considered.^ r a m,^c„ '...:;;,,;;...,;,",;; ..;f*.t I-...:,! , -sS™??".?? :9^ W'S^abe.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 254, 29 September 1883, Page 2
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185HOURS FOR BOYS. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 254, 29 September 1883, Page 2
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