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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 113, 17 May 1918, Page 8

.-Probably-on no previous occasion could a poet boast that his poems had Lved bis son' s life. " Yet Mr Robert Hogg, of Wellington, can make aucti a claim, and produce the souudest ol evidence in support thereof, viz., a copy of the poems pierced with three bullet-holes during the great Qerman push early in .March of this year. Mr Ho<fe. under the pen name of JKobm Blochairn,"- recently had a. coiiectwn of his poems, entitled "Singin to the Weans," published by Mr Alexander Gardner, of Paisley, Scotland .■Come* of the first edition were, forwarded to -Wellington, and one of tnem. was seat on to his son in iFrance, Gunner "Robert Hogg, of the sth Battery, Zealand Artillery, formerly a linotype operator i„ Th e Dominion office. He •was carrving the little book of poems in his right breast pocket on the da} i he was hit. and he -would certainly bave been killed had. the book not stopped the bullets.. Mr Hogg declare* that if one copy'had not "been sold his verses have proved their worth in savingthe life of hW son. As a matter OfT.fact. the poems have been reviewed 1 most! enthusiastically bv- the leading papers of England and Scotland. fITRST AT TKK TTRONT AND FIRST AT HOMtf Th« Bov» at the front *U use Re*o Da, and find it nnennalled k * Sonthm? and Rantd Healine Ointment for th«- terriWe wounds from which they po often Buffer. Don't forget Reznna is as nec-e« •ary and effective in the homo a* in the tranches. Rexona, U 6rf *nd .V Ob