'■ Despite what we hear from many people, the natives make exceedmg y good servants,” commented Mr W. M. Milliken, an Aucklander now m Nigeria in the British Colonial Service, in an address to the Auckland Rotary Club. “If you treat them right they • are exceedingly good. The household usually consists of a cook, a steward, and a * small boy.’ The ‘ small boy may actually be an old man, but he still has the title. He does most of the work, though the steward has the supervision of the affairs of the house. On one occasion I discovered my ‘small boy’ being caned on the palm of the hand, in the old schoolboy manner. It appeared that he had made a mistake while laying table, so the ‘small boy’ learns in a hard school.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24326, 17 June 1940, Page 6
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