CHILD LABOUR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8964, 4 November 1907, Page 2

CHILD LABOUR.

Per Press Association Et,THAMj November % The Argtis publishes a number of interviews with farmers, doctors and teachers re Sit Robert Stout’s statement that children* were worked to death in Taranaki. In every instance the charge is refuted. Two doctors say that they never came across any instances of children suffering from overwork and state that children in Taranaki arc exceptionally healthy and of unusually good physique. , The headmaster of Eltham school gives two cases of hardship which occurred six years ago, but says ho knows none now.Mr Hint'/., Director of Technical Education Wanganui Board, says it is difficult to get homo lessons done in a dairying district. . The Chairman of the Eltham Dairying ■Company states that tho allegation is quite unfounded, and that oven among share milkers there is little child labour.