NEWS AND NOTES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14956, 1 May 1914, Page 9

NEWS AND NOTES.

r "IT'S A SAD STOEY."

:;hild labocr o.v daiPwY FARMS.

"Things are no: as bad ag they wsre. The settlers aro getting iv a hotter position. Thoso arc isolated cases."' Mr. T. Moss mado these remarks at ,- the Wellington Education Board*, meeting on Tuesday in referring to a report of the Truant Inspector in regard to cases where children had been absent from school or had been la to i-i their arrival owing to having to miik cows. Tho inspector had reported that he -knew of instances v here "tlips of :ziris : ' had been tent to the top of hills "at Hiuir.'yj to in ilk cows, and then, after being at school during the day, Had to .go homo again to milk tho cows. In . another instance, a lad ten years' of age ha:! to milk six cows night and ir.orning. Some children had to milk from five to ten cows as well as take mi'.k to the factory, and there was an instance where thoy had had to do this for a period of six weeks when suffering from ivhoooiiirj coush and unable -to attend sr-hool. In still another caso a mother had informed the Truant Inspector that she antl her two boys had "to miik -10 cows night arid morning, although she had afterwards denied ■ this during the hearing of a truancy pros-ecu tion. "It's a sad story." said the chairman Olr P. Lee), ''but I'm afraid we can do nothing more than to express -our strong disapprobation of parents who allow their children to perform 6tioh work."'