IS THIS ORDER TYRANNICAL

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 40, 4 October 1890, Page 3

IS THIS ORDER TYRANNICAL

<>m: of the managers of a big knitting mill has made a calculation that the hoestring of a working girl will come untied on the average three times per diem, and that a girl will lose about fifty seconds every time she stoops to retie them. Most of the employeshave two feet, so this entails a loss of three hundred seconds every day for each girl. There are about four hundred girls enifdoyeil in the factTrry, and tire gentlemen find that 43,800,000 seconds are wasted in the course of a year, which time at the average rate of wages is worth £l9O. thdeis have accordingly been issued that girls must wear only buttoned shoes or gaiters under penalty of discharge.