CHILD SLAVERY.
A TRUANT OFFICER'S REPORT. By Telerapb.-Press Association. Dunedin, Last Nigfe At a meeting of the Education Board, the truant officer reported that the practice of employing children at such early hours m the morning as to interfere Wttli school work was increasing. He MA Ik written the Minister of Education suegesting that a conference of tfluwt ©f§. cers should be held to bring the position before the Minister. Approximate!* «W children from 7 to 14 years <rorl£«d on milk carts for two to live hours Sefera attending school, the pay ranging from * «d to 10s. The position wai Worst in Uversham, Green Island, B nd North Hast Valley. The board decided to draw the attention of the Minister to the Department's promise in 1918 that the subject would be taken up, and to ask what had been
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1919, Page 4
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139CHILD SLAVERY. Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1919, Page 4
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