The record total of 12,198 children under the age of 16 years was employed in New South Wales factories last year, compared with 11:722 in 1.938. Britain’s largest munitions works, which will cost £3 500 000. are under construction “somewhere in Britain.” The building operations are emploving 4000 hands.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 137, 10 May 1940, Page 6
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