MENACE TO THE STATE.
CHILD SLAVERY" LN AUCKLAND. In their annual '■ report .-'upon, primary education 'in the Auckland district - the school inspectors draw attention to the very serious, disadvantages' under which many children suffer that live in dairying districts. It not infrequently happens that such children are. obliged to work so hard, both before ■ and after school, that they arc quite -unfitted to undertake profitably the work demanded in the school, with the result that their physical, as well as their intellectual.development, is grievously retarded. It. is to be' regretted that parents, and.' the community generally, do not recognise these facta, and are not more fully alive to their duties and responsibilities. To exact from children labour so continuous that the bloom and vivacity of childhood "lingers but a few short'years, and leaves behind it; prematurely'" tired little men.and women—a sight-unplea-sant to behold in so younanand promising a country—is (the i__npect___ contend) an irremediable wrong to" the•children and a menace to the welfare of the'Stitei'
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 90, 16 April 1913, Page 5
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165MENACE TO THE STATE. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 90, 16 April 1913, Page 5
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