PROGRAMME OF THE "NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT."
" 1. To rescue the families of our workmen from the dismal lanes, crowded, alleys, and unwholesome dwellings of our towns, and plant them out in the clear, Avhere, in the middle of a garden, in a detached homestead, in wholesome air and sunshine, they may live and grow up, strong, healthy, and pure under the influence of a well-ordered home.
" 2. To enable this to be effectually carried out, there must be created a perfect organisation for the selfgovernment of counties, town, and villages, with powers for the acquisition and disposal of land for the common good.
"3. The next condition of the well-being of the skilled workman is that a day's labor shall consist of eight hours of honest work. "4. In addition to schools for elementary education, there shall be providedschools for practical knowledge and technical skill iv the midst of their homesteads.
"5. For the moral and physical well-being of the people, places of public recreation, knowledge, and refinement, shall be organised as parts of the public service.
"6. Public markets shall be erected in every town for the sale of goods in smnll quantities, of best quality, at wholesale prices.
" 7. There shall be provided a great extension of the organisation of the public service on the model of the Post-office, for the comtnoa good."
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 204, 28 December 1871, Page 7
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225PROGRAMME OF THE "NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT." Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 204, 28 December 1871, Page 7
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