The Alleged 'White’ Slave.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1695, 17 June 1885, Page 3

The Alleged 'White’ Slave.

The Rev 11. Wre White writes to the liVttd ton 1 mu-s iii explan atom concerning tlie buy Mason who ran away trow Mr Bannister lately. Mr White says " The boy was apprenticed to me in the usual way in hcet-ml-tr, 1-vjl, as a domestic servant for a term i ! f -nr yt-ais, and I paid far ids passage tu New Zealand, having received an apprentice fee of Lh In?, which did not pav moi • I than a third of the expense which I incurred * on his Recount. When leaving Greylowu I toui.d teat I should have no mote outdoor v.aik nr loin to do; and, as it would not have Letn well for the hoy to be kept at n.titor girls woik for three years, I trainslerred him, with los own consent and the a)-f rov-1 i f a Macistiate, to Mr B;iv.ni.-ti r, a n.an of high character and good p sitii to who lias a fuim ntmr Weßiuctm., on whicli Mason c-iiild, if he choose, Kant to Le a useful man. M; i. ,n- i-;. r in consideration of St ci.nt.L' ii.e L esi-rvict-s fur mom than two teal-, rtft.u.iid to me 1,7 ItM ..£ the money wto-h 1 had sjeiU in bringing t‘ne Lay to NV.v Zordan 1. The boy his no claim to wag.- in n.oUcy, inr j 5 Lund to s-ive his mastti f. t v;o!!:(» ami hod— unite suiucient piem-nt lor toe -r! vitas Oi a young nil’.iiiiimii i i.v. lit- tith-t ami ii.e Ltovuiiois <1 the ole ol seat him to me ou the u-ntal t- rius; in io e-:-t- c imi in- have thiu.i .1 momy v.a.a s until a tmm oi apprenticeship exp.-tai. ids uaitf.! r.-, Mr Bannister, Widal: ,V|- fr ! •wm . L ivat t ■:c l could not lit r it. a-nt- . f tne ten- murm or give him •i claim 1-r other w igrs than them to which he was entitled in my senice ; so that iuatia r ieg .l!;. . im ii.ilv in.-tin; hov hteri inuu.-.i. ,»!..( I 1, .v« Li.n a heavy k-ei hv Lii.jgn g lion tio- c- an:rv. So much f r ta m arge of " hi Imu ping' - a buy and “st llHj;J hue •’ to Iced pigs I .'’