SEMI-SLAVERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 10

SEMI-SLAVERY.

YOUNG GIRL RESCUED. HANDS BECAME BRUISED. LABORIOUS FARM WORK. J -: *' J. A girl of 13 who, unknown- to her widowed mother, was slaying so laboriously on a farm that her hands became bruised and calloused, wtts rescued this year, from her hard life by the Victorian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. -i v . : 5 This story was told in the society's l annual report. The society also reports how it has been able to improve conditions in many of the 506 cases it investigated during the year. Many of these were very distressing cases of cruelty to children. v Until the society investigated and; took actum which brought haziness into the life of the little girl of 13, who was boarded out, this was her daily routine:^ Before school she lit the fire, brought in three cows, milked) fed and returned them to the paddock, and delivered milk. After school she similarly dealt with the cows, harnessed the.horse and drove to the township; delivered milk and collected pigs' food, returned home and fed the pigs and ferrets, helped to get the tea washed and dried dishes for eight persons and scalded dairy utensils. After removal from her heartless guardians the child was returned to her mother who was fortunately able to obtain work where she could take the girl back in her own care.