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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1831, 10 April 1907, Page 25

Lord Elgin will preside over the Imperial Conference, which is expected to last ten days.

In the opinion of Mr Hampton, Wellington delegate at the Labour Conference at Dunedin, the slums in the church-ridden city of Dunedin are 200 per cent, worse than the lowest in Wellington. He expressed himself more than surprised that the citizens stood by and saw their fellow beings herded together in worse kennels than they would put dogs into. He had been -told that even the worst dens in London were nothing as compared with the slums of Dunedin. Mr Thorn, of Christchurch, endorsed the remarks of Mr Hampton, and said lie could not understand how such rookeries and such dilapidated and squalid slums could be allowed to exist in this fair land.