CHILD LABOUR.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43089, 7 May 1907, Page 4

CHILD LABOUR.

- Another phase of the child labour question is' Mentioned in. ‘his report to the Wellington Education- Board on truancy by the Board’® Truant Inapeotor, who wrote: “In the outlying districts of theWairarapa, I came across parents who were quite indifferent about their children’s education', and, when spoken to, they informed me that t’aay had got on fairly- well without " education, ; and they thought their children would do the. 'same. Ini one ease the mother told me that her three children, aged respectively, seven;, mine andi 11 -cars, hadi to milk ten cows daily, and she herself milked seven, as her husband was not fitted to do the work. I asm. powerless to compel them, (to send their children to school regularly, as the school is situated two miles away on the other side of the river. A similar case was met with in the Manaiwatu district, where the father in replv to a notice sent, stated that his Khildren had to help to milk 36 cows, whilst he and his wife, even with the aid of the ohildren, had to work from daylight till dark. This man is working the farm on the share system. The compulsory clause cannot be enforced in this case, as the hkwne is three tfirles and a half from the nearest school.”