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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3439, 19 February 1890, Page 2

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The Sweating System. : ;,; Dunedin, February 18, c At the Sweating Commission this oveiiing,; the Prosidont of the 'Typographical Association gave evidence, He regarded the ratos paid for; cornposition as inadequate, but the great-' est difficulty was boy "labour, whioh had assumed serious proportions."ln pneollico two boys were employed toevory man, while in another girls were employed. A seamstress gave evidence of the benefit of the union. A yoarago she only earned 10a 6d per week working from 9 aun, to 11 p.m., now she could make 12s or 13a per .week in factory hours. A journeyman butcher gave his hours as 8, or at least-B.'Bo'a.m."andiiil'll p.m. on Saturdays. "'AH last winter he had not seen hie own house: by daylight. His ohildren,know,:liim, but lie was strongly reminded of a case where', a father had struck his own boy in the street, and the latter ran to his mother to tell her that'he j had been struck by the man who stopped in the house on Suuday,

Serious Accident. ' ■'' )A Lytielion, February 18. A sailor named Andrew Prystraw, working on the ship Brahmin, was nearly killed to-day by a bale of fencing wire falling from the slingt and striking him. His left arm was broken and his head injured. The Leprosy Scare. ..

Auckland, February.lß.-. A Chinaman named Ah Goon.living at Arch Hill, a suburb of (be oily, has beaifound to be suffering from.leprosy in an advanced 'staged \ The ; patient,' when found to be ill, was taken to Dr ■Mewell, who at once decided - the nature of the disease, : Ah Goonstates that the first spot of the malady appeared about three years ago, He has been isolated,and Inspectorßrobam of the police force, and Mr Hteadraan, Chairman of the Arch Hill Road Board have communicated with the Colonial Scctptary, asking for instructions as to wbat sh'kllbe done in the case. The patient w one of the. Chinese market gardeh'erd, and has been pursuing his' vocation in and out of. town.

Dunkdis, Fobraary-18. Thecasoof tho Portuguese leper, Silver,was discussed at the Benevolent Institution Trustees' meeting, to-day the person who has been keeping him having intimated that no one is attending tho leper and he will die unless he receives attention,:'.. Tho Trustees decided to forward tho letter to the Board of Health.