MILKING BEFORE SCHOOL.
BOYS HABITUALLY LATE. "LOOKS LIKE CHILD SLAVERY." (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondenrt.) ELTHAM, Wednesday. "You must make a complete change in your methods, as in the circumstances the children have no chance of acquiring an education, and no chance in life," said Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., to William Ernest McKay to-day, when fining him £2 5/ for having failed to send his three stepsons to school regularly.
According to the evidence, McKay manages two farms, and the children, aged eight, 10 and 12 years, were required to rise at 4 a.m., walk to the other farm, about two miles away, and milk the cows there before going to school. In consequence they were habitually late, and frequently absent. The defendant 6aid the mother of the children insisted on their working, even if they were late for school. It was better than starving.
The Magistrate: You will have to employ labour, which you will find less costly than the payment of fines, which will be inflicted so long as the children fail to attend school. You axe not entitled to treat the children in such a manner. It looks like a case of child slavery.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 92, 19 April 1928, Page 8
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