JUVENILE MIGRANTS
FARMERS’ APPRENTICES.
K.S.W. SCHEME FATLS. GOVERNMENT TO REPLACE IT. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Sept. 17, 8.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 17. Tliei Assembly passed the Juvenile Migrants ’ Apprenticeship Repeal Bill. The measure which this Bill repealed provided for British boys, whose passages were paid by the Commonwealth Government to New South Wales, being apprenticed to farmers at wages varying from 10s to 15s weekly. The Minister for Labour, in moving the second reading of the Bill, said lie considered the wage was not adequate. The Act had proved a failure. Farmers had not responded, and the boys were, dissatisfied. Of the 835 boys identured, 138 had absconded. The Government did not intend to give up bringing out these boys, but would do so under better and more elastic conditions.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 September 1925, Page 5
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