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BOYS EARN £l5 A WEEK. BOOT CLEANING FOR TROOPS. Three boys are earning up to £l5 a week in their school holidays polishing the boots of Allied soldiers, states a message from Brisbane. One of the /boys said that he had never earned less than„£3 a day, and all three complain that they will have to go back to school when the holidays end. When they first started business with a small box for a footstand and a kerosene case for a chair, they had difficulty in getting tan polish, but Americans helped them by supplying tins. As the boys boarded a tram for home the other evening they pulled dollar bills and 10s notes from their pockets before they could find a penny for their tram fare.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1943, Page 4
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130PROFITABLE WORK Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1943, Page 4
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