A SCANDAL OF THE UNIVERSE.
" ■ vife OVERCROWDING IN WELLINGTON, -h ... $ Per Press Association. Auckland, Tuesday, home interesting addresses were de* - livered to a meeting of men in the Bap- :;# tist Tabernacle last night upon the attl- M tude of the Church towards present-day labor problems. The Rev. J. J. North.- % of Wellington, referred to the high price "-" of land in Wellington. He spoke of the "■1 "little back yards no bTggcr than blan- ' kets ' which the workers had to be con- ■'* tent with. He was certain aB he lived " that Wellington was one of the scandaU of the universe. The working men's chil- 4 dren were forced to play iii the streets, - which were hotbeds of corruption. Hi» own children were also obliged to play .3 there became he could not afford a\H! bigger rent. There was a "Kelly gang" \ in the form of land syndicates and landgrabbers going the round in Wellington, | and the sodlter they did away with them M the better. His definition of the rights .31 of man was that "every man should a fair whack." ,'M
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 16 October 1907, Page 2
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181A SCANDAL OF THE UNIVERSE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 16 October 1907, Page 2
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