EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALES ACT.
Sir, — I was very pleasod to see you take up the enforcing in this district of the Act regulating the employment of females. At present the Act is entirely disregarded here, all the dressmakers keeping their girls at work on Saturday afternoons just the same as on any other day of the week. Whose fault is it 1 The Inspector of Police 1 Surely Mr Scully tcannot be aware of it, or he would lose no aime in putting a stop to the oppressive nd illegal conduct of the dressmakers. Let one of them be summoned, and the rest will very soon send their girls home at the proper time on Saturday afternoon. What I recommend is that the female employees should get up a petition to the Colonial Secretary, asking him to direct Inspector Scully to take steps at once to have the Act carried out in Napier. Colonel Whitmore is as gallant as he is brave, and I am sure he will promptly comply with a request addressed to him by the fair sex. — lam, &c, Needle.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5361, 21 April 1879, Page 3
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183EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALES ACT. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5361, 21 April 1879, Page 3
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