DESERTING THE DOMINION.
"A POVERTI-STRICKEN. DRUDGE." In urging the cutting-up and settlement of large estates, in the House of Representatives last evening, Mr. A. W. Hogg, member for Masterton, spoke strongly in reference to the policy which was driving young people out of the Dominion. If the Prime Minister liked to challenge him, Mr. Hogg said, he could give the names oi young men about to leave New Zealand—young men who were being starved out of. the country. They were leaving us now in loads by every steamer. What, he asked, was the use of paying for immigrants to come to these shores, knowing at. the same time that the cream of New Zealand was leaving by every steamer because there were no prospects here? New Zealand, said Mr. Hogg, stood now in the position of a poverty-stricken drudge, and he wanted to know why the young men were leaving the Dominion. There - was an abundance of land- in New Zealand, but, like'lunatics and criminals, it was locked up and unemployed. Mr. Hemes- (Tauranga) laughingly suggested that' if any member of the Opposition had said what Mr: Hogg had said the remarks would have been held up to derision. ,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 903, 24 August 1910, Page 4
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199DESERTING THE DOMINION. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 903, 24 August 1910, Page 4
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