CHILDREN IN FACTORIES.
The Year Book of the Commonwealth ' \ gives statistics of the number of children Y employed in factories. By children are meant boys and girls under the age of 15. In 1906 there were over 10,000 children employed in factories in the Commonwealth, exclusive of Queensland, from which State there is no return. Of these. 5803 were males, and-4201 '* females. This is a large ■ ' proportion for the population. And tlie number of children thus employed appears ' ,to be rapidly • increasing, for in 1903 the tqtal number was but .a little over 8000, so that there has been an increase of 2000 in three years. Victoria is the chief field for ;'; this kind "of labour, for that State has no less than 6300 out of the total number.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13765, 2 June 1908, Page 6
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