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Show H THE POWER OF LAW. H A few weeks ago, the Chinese of Now Zealand H were found to be doing a very great deal of the H laundry work available, and had so thrown out HB of employment the women workers in some of H the laundries. In New Zealand a laundry is a H factory within the meaning of the factories act, H so it occurred to a lawmaker that he could settle H the difficulty of this Chinese competition by a neat H amendment in the interpretation clause of the M act above mentioned. An amendment was ther H fore drafted and printed and sent with the ut- H most seriousness and good faith to the crown law Hj office for consideration; it contained a provision H in these words: "For tho purposes of this act H (the factories act), a Chinaman shall bo deemed H to be a girl under eighteen years of age." |