WHAT MR. HOGG MAY DO.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 540, 22 June 1909, Page 4

WHAT MR. HOGG MAY DO.

MEETING 01, "THE NAPIER BROTHER* -■''■';:.'' . i /■•.. HOOD.?- ; ,:" : -l" ;,s ', ' . (By Tclcßraph.— Special Correspondent.) ■:■'■,' • ■ '.' ..', Napior, J\kto 21. .■. "Tlio'.-Napior Brotherhood"—an iiietitution ,'with deoided Socialistic proclivities, which has beea established hero.by the E«v.;"J. K. Archer, a 'Baptist-minister, -wbb-: recently arrived from Homep-liold a mooting ;on Sunday ovoiliiig to discuss tlio .question, of compulBory: military training;' At the conclusion of bhc'dispuseiCii'/.thc' folio-wing; motion : '\va» handed -up to tlio chairman: —;. ;.. ;:' v '..: "That tHis ■ public; mooting, condemns ; the action'of the Gibinet. indismissing the lion. A. \V..Hpgg, whom wo. regard as ono of the bisst friends of the' wage-earning class, aitd ,-one "of tho most enlightened, and ,:capable statesmen who ever held office : ;in; this coiuitry. This meeting also calls upon t'ho workers of all parts of the Dominion.to assemble and: doclarOj thenisdlvos iti favour • of- ■ Sir. Hogg's .policy tfbr. the- destruction of. lanJ .monopoiy,' tho removal of all obstaclos to national progress, and;& just distribution of 'national earnings.'-' : . :;;,,'■■' : ;. ' v Tho,opinion was expressed th<vt tho matter should. be doferred,' and a ■ motion ■ was '> :arried to this effect. ' -■'' ..' ; .'■' ' .■'*■: '\ A stranger in the body of tiio. hallvbo, ' prostiniably, wa-s resiwnsiblo for the, main motion, rose and said that if tho resolution was to do any good it was'in:.pSrat.ivo that.it should bo passed -at onec. If; simitar motions wore'passed throughout New' Zealand lie had authority to stato that Mr. Hogg was-pre-pared to commence a, campaign on behalf l of tlio workers of the Dominic-n. , •■'? \ ;\ :

Tho motion on bokiK put was c&rriod, a number not votuig, and there being some dissentients! .' .;'; ,1 ." "'■■•' '•■ ■■'.• - ..... .

DEEP''REGRET.

'•'(By Telegraph.—Prcsß-'Asooctiitlon.).■■.■'.'■. ;.■'■■ : ■ Auckland, Juno 21. : At an. opwi-arr. meeting held on Sunday, ':"'i. under the direction of. the .Auckland branch. of Wie SodnJist .-party, n". . rprolution: was ' adopted'ondorsi'ii{;'.'t'li(!.ntt<;rancce'of Mr. A.' . W. , Hogg on the .land questiem, and , on a Stato note 1 issue, and expressing deep regret ; . at his retirement from the Ministry. . . A fund;whs oiwiiod Wr of . atestinional to Mr.'Hogg. ... ,-'..• :'.■■ ~ ■"