WORKMEN'S HOMES.
(To the Editor). Sir,—Mr Hogg, M.H.R., the friend of the working man, is an advocate of closer settlement, and rages like a roaring lion up and down the country threatening to chivvy the squatter, and his flocks and his herds, and his Jersey heifer and his pet lamb down" a steep place into the sea. Closer settlement, closer settlement, cut up the sheep stations, and let the land to the people is the cry of Mr Hogg.' And every estate that is cut up gives the rich farmer's son (mostly conservative) an opportunity to get a cheap farm. Mr Hogg cries loud and long for roads and bridges, to increase the value of the land that the settler may sell out at a great profit. Mr Hogg never tires of shouting, shouting, so that the fortune of the settler on the land may be made rapidly and large. Mr Hogg took no part in a meeting (held,in the Foresters' Hall on Friday evening last) to endeavour to start a movement that would enable the poor man and the landless man and the working man to get a cheap home in which to live. Mr Hogg's friendship for the working man is apparently mostly piffle.—l am, etc., UNION.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8440, 14 May 1907, Page 5
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209WORKMEN'S HOMES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8440, 14 May 1907, Page 5
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