Ifc would have been 1 an edifying sight to Mr Bradshaw who framed, and the Legislature who passed the Act which give*/ the compulsory; half-holiday on Saturday tb" 'chiidren_ and young persons" employed m. factories, as well as to our R. M. who holds that the said Act applioa to printing o flSces, to have taken a stroll, around Palmerston last Saturday afternoon, when they might have seen more 7 than , one of. those " yofing pfsrij^iis" forwhoje welfare theyi are Stf solicttioiis, cigar ,jo."mouth, aud billiftrd cliff m ;, hand, .faking their chancos dtif^hJß^^eQn^cipthjl'and imbibing gatnSlitifc' id^tincls from their surrpuddingtf.'We beljeye both morally aqd,phyr sicaHy'speftking, those same 5 ( you«ig persons" would haye '° been quite as well and healthfully employed "snatchiug type" as learning to become experts io one of the most demoralising gainea of the present age.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 75, 2 March 1885, Page 3
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