TOO MUCH WORK.
CHILDREN ON FARMS. DUTIES BEFORE SCHOOL LABOURERS JOIN THE ARMY. "If a Minister of the Crown knows nothing of the position, he does not know his job," declared Mr. W. I. Bowyer at a meeting of the Education Board to-day, when a lotter was received from a Bay of Plenty teacher, who stated that a boy under his charge had done half a day's work befo'3 he came to school, owing to the departure from his father's farm to join the military forces of the casual labourers.
"I fear that such cases are by no means isolated," said the teacher. "Two men on this particular farm have already enlisted, and another left last week. There is something wrong when adults can work a 40-hour week and children have to work from daylight until late at night."
Mr. Bowycr commented that a Minister of the Crown had stated in the Press that he knew nothing of the position. If that was so, the Minister did not know his job. The position, on farms was worse than it had been in 20 years. Elderly women were now having to go baek into the cowshed.
The matter was referred to the Education Department.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 246, 18 October 1939, Page 9
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TOO MUCH WORK.
Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 246, 18 October 1939, Page 9
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