THE PROBLEM OF LIFE.
One of the hardest cases even ventilated in the New South Walee Arbitration Gourt was heard at Sydney last week, when a eawmill hand told how he kept a wife and eight children on 30b per week, his average wages for 12 months. "How about tho children's clothes?" he was asked. "The wife makes them" was tho reply, "and so it does not ooet us much." "And) boots?" asked the counsel. "I do tho repairing myself" said , tho witness, "and sometimes we find some boots that have been -thrown away, and I put soles on the uppers." Mr Spencer, a members of iit& Court, them asked, "Don't you tlrin-k that is an encroachmen.t on the anion.?" The witness was not the only person amazed at the question, but ne admitted that perhaps it was. "Have you had any illness?" he was asked, and then the witness" brave front was pierced , . "I buried a little girl three weeks ago," he said brokenly.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 136099, 25 April 1908, Page 9
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