"PAUPER CHILDREN."
MR FISHER RESENTS THE TERM
(Received Last Night, 9.10 o'clock.)
MELBOURNE, July 15,
Referring to the recent suggestion of the "Review of Reviews",, that the pauper children of England should be educated for farm life in the overseas Dominions, the Right Hon. Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of the Commoniwealth, took strong exception to the term "pauper children." "We have," he said, • "emerged from Bumbledom sufficiently to have this cruel and unjust expression obituated." He did not express an opinion concerning the proposal itself:
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10689, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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85"PAUPER CHILDREN." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10689, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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