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FACTORY ADVERTISEMENT
Sharp comment was made at a meeting of the British Children's Reception Committee yesterday on the evident linking up of the children evacuated to the Dominion in the following advertisement appearing in a, Wellington newspaper on Monday:—"Little Britons—Scottish firm offers congenial and interesting factory work to girls over 14 years."
It was stated that evidently the business firm responsible for the advertisement had totally and inexcusably misjudged the reasons for the children having been sent to the Dominion.
"The little ones," said the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry), "have been brought to the people of the Dominion —away from the barbarous air raids —to receive the willing and sympathetic care of New Zealand mothers in all ways for the children's interests and genera] wellbeing. It is difficult to conceive how a business firm could imagine some of the children were to be placed in employment—that the children's educational studies were of no concern to their foster-parents."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 81, 2 October 1940, Page 11
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