Child Labour.
The Factories Act provides that no boy or girl under 16 years shali be employed in a factory unless the occupier holds a certificate of fitness relating to the child. The issiie of certificates to the number of 4298 in the year ended March, 1942, compared with 4199 in the. previous year, is recorded in the annual report of the Labour Department, Which states that 196 were for boys and 284 for girls under 14 years. Children under 14 are not permitted to be employed on machines, although in some workrooms girls over 14 are employed at light work on power machines of the standard type.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1942, Page 2
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108Child Labour. Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1942, Page 2
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