17,000 SHINGLED OUT OF WORK.
LONDON, December 10. Speaking at the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square. S.W., Mr John Lee, Controller of the Central Telegraph Office, said the most trivial social act of a mass of people often had painful consequences for numbers of fellow-human beings. As a result of the prevalence of shingling 16,700 out of 18,400 Chinese women who made hairnets in Ghefoo now depended for food upon the char-it-3" of the local American Missionary Society. \
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17756, 28 January 1926, Page 1
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