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NZ Truth, Issue 112, 10 August 1907, Page 6

Wouldn't be a bad idea to re-chris-ten "Hansard"- the -'-'Pell-Mell Gazette."- : The cables announce that copper has riz. Coppers have an awkward habit of rising occasionally. !A married man writes advocating a tax on bachelors, as if • the poor, lonely devils are not sufficiently miserable. Bachelors, he states, for purely selfish reasons, refrain from getting married. That's all buncombe. The right woman coming along will hitch him off his feet m no time. And they wonder why the girls go astray. Here is an official return, made, to the Premier m Sydney,- a* "to how girls arc sweated m the dressmaking and millinery trades :-*-283 girls are paid nothing per week ; 320 girls are paid 2s (id per week and under ; SS giris are paid 4s per week and under ; 252 girls are paid 5s per week and uwdor. Some of the girls arc receiving as low as Is per week. It's up to the Premier to call for a return of the same sort here, which will 'disclose like conditions. Thm if Pailiamont does not get up on Us heels and kick, there's no luiuiamly iv tho .crowd.. ""* ■-....