CHILD WORKERS
DUNEDIN, Aug. 21. At a meeting of the Education Board,-the truant officer reported that approximately 200 children from 7 to 14 years worked on milk carts for two to five hours before attending school, the pay ranging from 3s 6d to 10s. The board decided to draw the attention of the Minister to the Department's promise in 1918 that the subject would be taken up, and to ask what had been done.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 22 August 1919, Page 8
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74CHILD WORKERS Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 22 August 1919, Page 8
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