AFTER MANY YEARS
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MEMORIAL TO DORSET MEN WHO FOUGHT FOR BETTER | WAGES. i (Received May 28, 0 a.m.) LONDON, May 27. Mv Arut'hur Henderson, M.P. for Barnard Oastle Division, of Durham, unveiled a public memorial to six men of Tolpuddle, Dorsetshire, convicted at Dorset in 1833 for conspiring to bring about the betterment of wages, wihich were then only 7s .weekly, and \v J ho were sentenced to seven years' transportation to Botany Bay, the sentence being remitted in 1836. S'-be memorial adjoins the Wesleyan Ghatpel, at which some of the prisoners wane ;preachers.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10645, 29 May 1912, Page 5
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102AFTER MANY YEARS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10645, 29 May 1912, Page 5
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