; At tlie Road, Billiard 'Saloon in a- tournament played/ January, :l '.plcyer -named'/Lov,ejpy made ■[ a?' v breakv of . 603, including: 284 chjse' cannons; '.; With the object, balls placed/ t«'ii ; inches* apart .-..0n each side of the. top. left/ hand; ; pocket, and his o \m in pdsilion for a kiss /cannon, lie had overnight.made ,"215 canncms;; without sippreqiably. altering. v tbe positipjn ,of ■ the .bails, and" next dayylte. made 69 more before getting place.; .; His. aggregate*.of 284 close;- eaiuic-iis -easily beats'the previous record iJyXCook'of 159; ',/ . A: gener&tion.■!OTttwp. ago, men and -women worked yery long hours,"ana-children had; to ivpi-k';too, in order' to '.produce enough to suppbi'b, the man's, family. The grpwth of 'c'apijtal arid the employment -r>f machinery have; added so much to the efficiency of ! labour that.' long dipurs for adults* are no. ; lo'nge/r 'necessary, -arid the industrial employment of children iinder fourreen .can' be entirely, dispensed with.— "American Review. ; of- Reviews," .<; , ■■: : '
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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13238, 19 March 1907, Page 6
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