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Mataura Ensign, 19 July 1909, Page 3

Sumo mouths ago a summary of reports received by tin- X»»w South Walei Teachers' Association on child labor in country districts was published. The conditions revealed therein worn so astonishing that (according to the 'Daily lelegraph'), the public were glad to seize, the suggested explanation that teachers had taken isolated examples as typical. The question has been reopened by the rejKM'ts of the school inspectors, which will bo regarded by most people as confirming the previous'statcments. According to most of these officials, the rabbit and coir levy a heavy toll 011 young energy. One inspector learned from a group of Jivo bovs thattheir daily routine was to rise oarly, make a round of the rabbit traps, collect and clean the rabbits caught', return for breakfast, wait with the 'rabbits for tho carrier's cart, go to school at ton, after school walk homo and set traps, go homo to tea, and pay more visits to traps until nine o'clock. Mostof the parents are not in sucli needy circumstances as lo warrant this child labor. It is stated that half tho children (0661 in tho Lismoro district, whoso ages range from S to 15, work regularly 111 tho milking yard, or among tho pigs both before and after schooh Iho average number of cows milked daily by each child is 10, while manv lailk from 20 to 24. Whether resulting from a spraiii or from rheumatic pains, there is nothing fio pjobd for a lame shoulder as Cham. 0 18 ? a ' a Bal®- Apply it freely BSJU rub the pact's Vigorously at each application and a quick cure is certain. For sale everywhere. ' *