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Alexander Wilson Hogg (9 February 1841 – 17 November 1920) was a member of parliament for
Hogg was associated with the New Liberal Party in 1905. Like most of the other New Liberals, Hogg wanted the establishment of a State bank, but he did not share their zeal for constitutional innovations, rejecting the idea of the referendum and claiming that the Elective Executive Bill should be put in the rubbish bin.
Hogg was made Minister of Labour, Customs, and Roads and Bridges in 1909. But he resigned from his portfolios in the same year because of general dissatisfaction with the
Alexander Wilson Hogg (9 February 1841 – 17 November 1920) was a member of parliament for Masterton
Masterton ( mi, Whakaoriori), a large town in the Greater Wellington Region of New Zealand, operates as the seat of the Masterton District (a territorial authority or local-government district). It is the largest town in the Wairarapa, a r ...
, in the North Island
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of New Zealand.
Member of Parliament
Hogg contested the Masterton electorate in the , but was beaten byGeorge Beetham
George Beetham, F.R.G.S., M.H.R. (1840 – 20 August 1915), known to Māori as Hori Pitama, was a New Zealand politician and alpinist.
Beetham was born in 1840 in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England. His father was the noted portrait painte ...
. He represented the Masterton electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives
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for 21 years from to 1911.
From 1904 until 1905 he was the Liberal Party's junior whip
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.
New Liberal Party
Hogg was associated with the New Liberal Party in 1905. Like most of the other New Liberals, Hogg wanted the establishment of a State bank, but he did not share their zeal for constitutional innovations, rejecting the idea of the referendum and claiming that the Elective Executive Bill should be put in the rubbish bin.
Hogg was made Minister of Labour, Customs, and Roads and Bridges in 1909. But he resigned from his portfolios in the same year because of general dissatisfaction with the Ward
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Government's policies.
Alexander Hogg sought election in 1911
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as an Independent Labour candidate, and in 1912 became a member of the first New Zealand Labour Party
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. However, in the 1914
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contest he stood as a Liberal in Masterton.
He was a newspaper editor/owner of the ''Wairarapa
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Star''.
Quotes
Alexander Hogg on politics in 1882:Our system of general government is imperfect. The framework is already eroded and moth-eaten, loaded with parasites, suffering from a species of dry rot
References
Further reading
Works by Hogg
* ** This is a collection of forty volumes of clippings (with tables of contents) from Wairarapa newspapers (and Wellington's "Dominion"). This collection is also available on microfiche. * ** This is a collection of clippings from Wairarapa newspapers (and Wellington's "Dominion").Works about Hogg
* ** This volume contains a biography of Hogg. * * * * * *External links
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