CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921 — Page 97

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for by-laws prohibiting the employment of children under the age

of fourteen in factories or workshops for more than ten hours to

any one day was rejected.

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"It is intolerable that such a state of slavery should exist

in a British colony, where a British Governor rules practically without chook, and it would appear that nothing but public opinion

is likely to effect any real or lasting reform,"

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