The Labor Department's Report.
(By Telegraph.) [From our Special Reporter.] Wellington, This day. The Labor Department's report for the year ending March 31st is of a hopeful character. The total number of men assisted was 1718, a decrease from the previous year of 1153. It is stated that all skilled trades except that of printing have been very active. Many compositors are out of employment and trained and industrial workmen are daily finding their services dispensed with. Two causes are stated for this falling off in the business of the typographer—one is boy labor, badly taught and cheaply paid, and the other is the irresistible advance of improved machinery that is steadily expelling human labor from the printing trade. Mr Tregear emphasises the necessity for instituting technical schools for domestic servants w T here domestic knowledge whether for service or superintendence would be imparted.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 448, 12 October 1897, Page 2
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