Apprenticed wards earned wages, a proportion of which was banked in trust and a proportion of which covered the cost of their clothing, and were supervised by their employers and inspected by welfare authorities.
After WWI the State Children's Relief Department preferred to place its wards in trade apprenticeships, and few children were apprenticed as domestic servants. Aboriginal wards, however, were apprenticed until the 1960s, usually for less pay than white children.
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