EVIL OF CHILD LABOUR.
That the evil of child labour is not confined to country districts was suggested by Mr G. W. C. Macdonald (President of the Ndw Zealand Educational Institute) in his presidential address to the teachers' conference at Wellington on Tuesday last. Many children in towns got up, he said, at 3.30 a.m., went round serving milk or delivering papers almost till school time, worked five hours in school, then in the evening continued work similar to that of the morning. Some of these children worked tenjind ten and a-half hours a day, yet eight hours was considered sufficient for an adult. Under such conditions mental Hiid physical growth was undoubtedly I retarded, and he suggested that legislation should be enacted to prevent the systematic employment of children during school life.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9683, 6 January 1910, Page 4
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133EVIL OF CHILD LABOUR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9683, 6 January 1910, Page 4
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