THE WORKING MAN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10667, 24 June 1912, Page 4

THE WORKING MAN.

Speaking at tire Anglican. Synod .r Diuiodin last week, the Dean of that

city fJaad:— "The working man says that lio did not com© to Now Zea - land ■early .enough. Wlhen I eny the working man I mean llh'e man w'jo abrogates to luimscM frhat' ititJo. In fact, we: are all working men. Bir<, accepting the phrase in. its co :i;n>»i meaning, ive have the working mail and this compl'amit cf not being hero ea'rly enough. "Welt, what are thefacts? A million af them practically otto this country, wlikii is as lairge as the British ,'foles. I submit th.it >he ;ie here quite eadly enough if he will .h-ave the patienc-e of those who cams before! 'him, and not exp_ j ot r-v----erytiliing at once. Ho is here at the (beginning of things. He .hud fourteen anaMionts of money in the Post Offiip Savings Bank last yeair. He has r, > work an eight liours' day for days in the week. iWlien, lio oaiTi no 1 )iigc:' work he gets a pension. This stare, of affairs is nothing dike the state c.'f; ■affaire that prerafflg at Home, anc. to compare tthe position of the labourers here witlii the Jaborarcris in iFng;knd is to compare tilings that arc totally unlike l . The Soc&ailiist in Nov Zealand would tra.nisfonin this (ountry into a. /mere il/uibberlantl, whe.ro (he -would be fed atnd 'be able to idle away liis time ire a stlaifce of irresponaiibitety, and this, X ihald\, would not make .for the development of man hood."