COUNTRY CHILDRENS' HARDSHIPS.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13439, 10 June 1912, Page 6

COUNTRY CHILDRENS' HARDSHIPS.

HOPE FROM MILKING MACHINES

I United Pkess Association.]

Auckland!, Juno 7. The question of child labour in country districts was referred to by Mr W. O. Lamb, president ol: tho Auckland Country Teach arr' Association, in^thu course of his evidence- before tho Education Commission. Ho said his association had instituted inquiries »nd had found that country children often -suffered considerable hardehips. In soino cases, they worked, ai homo for hours and then travelled several miles to school and arrived ther:< in a j?.d-ed condition. Tho result or' inquiries showed that when such children readied the school they were not in the condition ireoGssary-to receive instruction, it was not co:ih,idorcd a hardship for children to milk two or throe cows, but in some cases children Avere subjected to real conditions of slavery. The Country Teachers' Association hoped that with the advent of the nulling machine?, the evil, to a large extent, would bo removed.