FARM LABOUR
EFFECT OF SHORTAGE
OVERWORKED CHILDREN
(By telegraph—Press AsSOciatidn.l
AUCKLAND, This Day
The statement that a boy under his charge had done half a day's work before he came to school owing to the departure from his father's farm of labourers to join the military forces was made in a letter from a Bay of Plenty teacher to the Auckland Education Board.
"I fear that such cases are by no means isolated," stated the teacher. "There is something wrong when; adults can do a 40-hour week and! children have to work from daylight till dark."
Mr. W. I. Bowyer, at today's meeting of the Education Board, said that a Minister of the CroWn had seated in the Press that he knew nothing of the position. "If that was so "' added Mr. Bowyer, "the Minister .did not know his job. The position on farms is worse than it has been for twenty years. Elderly women have had to go back to the cowshed." i The board referred the m&tter to the Education Department. ./*
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1939, Page 11
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